GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nels Anderson, Eurocentrism, Florian Znaniecki
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Taking part in what you are researching (living with, hanging out with, studying behaviours, daily life, etc) Researcher typically and outsider to the community who gains access to the community and lives in the community for an extended period of ime documening all aspects of the daily life and culture of the community. Naturalisic research: conducted in the natural seing of the paricipants (diferent from lab seing, researcher does not want to interfere with the seing, producing more genuine indings) Detail, complexity that you get from ethnographies (ex. Hanging out w people for 2-3 years keeping notes every day = provides very rich data) The scieniic validity of ethnographies derive from their careful atenion to detail. Needed to be very careful detailed recording of what they saw: research techniques ethnographers use: Originally naive informant perhaps speak both languages; naive and english, would help to interpret directly, explain what is going on and how we do things (wedding, etc)
