TBB199Y1 Lecture Notes - Ethnography, Social Reproduction, Participant Observation
26 May 2013
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Students are asked to keep an ethnographic love journal. What is a ethnography: often a book length, rich detailed description of how a society works, not a novel, not a fiction, ethnography is an account, a representation of a society, descriptive as well as analytical. She was unintentionally involved in court cases, being a witness in the court. Interviewed women in huli, she did diverse sample of women, not a random sample. Looking for commonalities among the diversity education, age etc of women. Made up story based on historically correct facts. The standard is participant observations: participating in a society. (deep hanging out) Writing field notes on what you observed, also include your personal account, subjective perception. Not generating a random sample and develop a quantitative analysis to assess your hypothesis. Asking students to be a ethnographer, being a participant observer of anything to do with love. Love in diaspora, social reproduction (marrying to keep culture the same)
