SOC 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Ethnography
Document Summary
But i was suspicious about the validity of this notion because how much people earn tends to be a closely held secret. I triangulated by checking the official budgets for the public defenders" and prosecutors" offices. What i found was that there was no appreciable difference between how much public defenders and prosecutors were paid. However, i did find some important clues to why the lawyers might feel differently rewarded for their work. The budget for the prosecutors" office included a lot more money for amenities (phones, photocopying, law journals, investigators, secretaries, and the like). No doubt, the sense that public defenders were being paid less was tied to their perception that they received fewer perks and resources for actually doing the job. Here my triangulation (even though it was really only biangulation ) was successful.
