STRC 2551 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Participant Observation

• School: Temple University
• Department: Strategic Communication
• Course: STRC 2551
• Professor: Abigail Jones

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Overt participant observation s before joi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a group, the resear(cid:272)her is likely to i(cid:374)for(cid:373) the group"s (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)ers (personally, or through the agency of sponsor) about purpose, scope, how long etc. s sponsor. Whether you have the right to study a group s open. The group being studied is observed in its natural setting s advantages: the problem of access can be fairly easily overcome. Access to a group needs to be considered in relation to two main ideas: getting into a group. Give researchers to study the group that can not be study covertly for lack of same characteristics: the research you are able to do once you are part of the group. Have access to all levels of the group it is important if the group has a clear hierarchical structure: easy to record data while observing with this type of ethnographic.