SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Participant Observation, Blind Experiment, Sampling Bias
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Macro level analysis: military, race, relations of multinational corporations. Micro level analysis: how people interact on street corners, how people decorate their homes, family violence. Deeper and more personal level of analysis. Common sense = what everyone else knows. Need to move beyond common sense and guessing. 3 out of 4 dentist recommend Highly descriptive analysis, not always viewed as objective by more conventional researchers. Rich descriptions often provides significant theoretical insight. Living on the street to see what it"s like and recording it but keeping identity secret to gather a better insight. Interviewer and interviewees involved in a conversation. Researchers" personal characteristics very important in fieldwork. Distinctive feminist methodology, a conversation among equals. Analyze data already collected by someone else. Excellent source information but one cannot be sure of how systematically the original data was collected. Problem is who is the source of the data. Quality of data can be questioned as well.