Political Science 3324F/G Lecture 6: 3324
5 Feb 2019
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Today"s agenda: introducing ethnography, ethnographer roles, field notes, visual ethnography, concluding thoughts. > the terms ethnography and participant observation are essentially synonymous, although we will consider ethnography" to be the more inclusive term. Participant observation = the observational component of this sort of work. > with both, the researcher is immersed in a particular social setting for a long period of time, sometimes even years. > behaviour is observed in an unstructured way, and often in-depth, unstructured discussions and interviews are held with the people studied. Overt = the people being studied know they are being observed by a researcher. Covert = the people being studied do not know they are being observed by a researcher. Open = or public settings: e. g. , public parks, downtown sidewalks, etc. > in an open" setting may be difficult to make observations and talk to people. Closed = i. e. , private or restricted settings: meetings of private clubs, social movement organizational centres, etc.
