Sociology 2206A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Racial Profiling, Ethnography, Substance Abuse
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Age, gender, ethnicity of the workers and people crossing the border. Understanding everyday life from the perspective of the members of the filed. Observing people in settings and staying with them in some social role. People may know and not know your presence. Involves pure observation; enter the site and make observations. Participant observation; hanging out with the participants in a natural setting, participating in the activity. Hanging out with people in their natural, everyday settings. Focused on studying underside of urban life (e. g. , inner city poverty, crime & deviance, suicide: can zoom into any street corner and observe what is happening. Street corner sociology - william foote whyte (1943) Different neighborhoods of nyc, and observed people walking down the street etc. From that street corner, you can get many information. Field researchers" involvement can be arranged on a continuum": the degree of detachment or involvement. The extent to which the researcher participates in the field.
