CS235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anthony Giddens, Structured Interview, Participant Observation
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Qualitative methods of storying the social, part 2. Alfred schutz, the stranger, as model of ethnographer using techniques of participant- observation and interviewing (walsh in seale, 216-217) Each social group has its own cultural pattern of life-folkways, more laws, habits, customs and so on that are taken for granted, are habitual and almost automatic schultz called this cultural common sense the lebenswelt or lifeworld. The ethnographer rst enters the eld as like a stranger by making the familiar strange or unfamiliar. That is, she or he tries to treat the familiar word of its members as anthropologically strange, to expose its social and cultural construction (walsh, seale, 227) Interviewing is one of the primary methods of quantitative research. It is a process of dyadic relational communication (except focus groups) Designed to explore the meaning of social and cultural practices. One of the key methods that phillips uses in her study is the qualitative interview.
