CMNS 260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Financial Audit, Thick Description

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 260
• Professor: Frederik Lesage

Document Summary

Ethnography: an approach to field research that emphasizes providing a very detailed description of a different culture from the viewpoint of an insider in that culture in order to permit a greater understanding of it. Methodology: a collection of data collection and analysis approaches that are linked together through and over arcing theoretical orientation. Naturalism: the principle that researchers should examine events as they occur in natural every day ongoing social settings. Field site: the one or more natural locations research or conduct field research. Complete observer: infield research, when a researcher only observes the study group without participating in their activities. Gatekeeper: someone with the formal or informal authority to control access to a site. Covert observer: in field research, refers to a researcher who secretly sending a group without the group members knowing that they are being studied. Overt observer: infield research, refers to the researcher who is studying the group members with their full knowledge.