COM 470 Lecture 17: Chapter 10; Qualitative Field Research; Topics Appropriate for Field Research; Special Considerations in Qualitative Field Research; Some Qualitative Field Research Paradigms; Conducting Qualitative Field Research;
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You can change from being it or not depending on o(cid:374)e"s e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)ces. A(cid:373)erica"s attitude to(cid:449)ard the musli(cid:373) culture was different before and directly after 911 (warped and changed due to an experience) Elements of social life appropriate to field research. All these things can be qualitatively studied: practices, episodes, encounters, roles and social types, social and personal relationships, groups and cliques, organizations, settlements and habitats, social worlds, subcultures and lifestyles. Paradigm: in qualitative research a frame of study: naturalism, ethnomethodology, grounded theory, case studies, participatory action research. Institutional ethnography: naturalism: an approach to field research based on the assumption that an objective social reality exists and can be observed and reported accurately. Everything can be observed through observation probably the most common: ethnography: a report on social life that focuses on detailed and accurate description rather than explanation. Welsh 3: follow the research procedures, case studies: the in-depth examination of a single instance of some social phenomenon.