SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Foodservice, Participant Observation, Mitchell Duneier
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Using real names can place people at risk. Go and engage as a participant in the study you are researching in. Benefits: helps find the emotions of the person. Concerned with the definition and assessment of social phenomena. Social researchers enable us to get inside these diverse social worlds and discover what social forces are at work in creating social life. Anyone who is in frequent contact with a wide circle of people and who is sufficiently interested to make himself a public character. A public character need have no special talents or wisdom to fulfill his function-although he often does. He just needs to be present, and there needs to be enough of his counterparts. His main qualification is that he is public, that he talks to lots of different people. In this way, news travels that is of sidewalk interest.
