Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ethnography, James Samuel Coleman, Causal Inference
22 Sep 2018
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Mistake made by young researchers: assume your research insights are shared by others. If not, nd systematic answers: questions often come from our experiences: personal, generational (inequality, power relationships, etc. , to understand how organizations structure themselves, researchable, clear questions. Many mothers who give birth in prison (in the us) are shackled during labour. Special prisons (mansions) with mothers and children (prisoned children: kitchens, bedrooms, living rooms (essentially a group house that they cannot leave with correctional o cers) Ethnographer: sociologist who enters the lives of others to understand how they navigate and give meaning to their worlds. %1: ethnography useful when there might be a juncture between what people are. Thursday, september 20, 2018 saying and what they"re doing. Author observed women and children in the prison: group sessions, mothering classes, taught creative writing, sta meetings, gained keys to the prison. Became convinced that these were brutal places but not in the way one might think.
