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    The research method chosen for this study is qualitative research. Its methodology is ethnography which incorporates non-participant field observation and non-structured interviewing. Observational field studies are the dominant research tool used to study expert teams (Salas‚ Rosen‚ Burke‚ Goodwin‚ & Fiore‚ (2006)‚ which all tumor boards are. Salas et al (2006) also state that observational studies are necessary to access information about how teams operate in their environments‚ particularly in

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    Technology & the Amish  The Amish are averse to any technology which they feel weakens the family structure. The conveniences that the rest of us take for granted such as electricity‚ television‚ automobiles‚ telephones and tractors are considered to be a temptation that could cause vanity‚ create inequality‚ or lead the Amish away from their close-knit community and‚ as such‚ are not encouraged or accepted in most orders. Most Amish cultivate their fields with horse-drawn machinery‚ live

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    The Amish‚ who are also called "The Plain People" or Old Order Amish‚ originated in Switzerland in approximately 1525. They originated from a movement called the Anabaptist movement. Jacom Amman was the leader. This happened during the reformation in the16th Century Europe. They believed in holding on to traditions and keeping themselves separated from the world. He was stricter about this than other Anabaptists of that time. The Anabaptists were against the union of church and state and also

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    Who are the Amish? Many people around the world have no idea who or what the Amish culture is. Many countries or towns around the world have their differences and their own rules about their environment and things other people should respect from other countries‚ but most of them are not as strict as the Amish communities. The Amish sometimes referred to as Amish Mennonites‚ are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships that form a subgroup of the Mennonite churches. The Amish are known

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    The Amish are a group of church abiding people‚ whose way of life is driven by their religion. There religion basically tells them that they must be separate from worldly sin to receive salvation. Every facet of their life has something to do with them keeping this way of life. There way of life ties in with their mode of subsistence. The Amish are horticulturist. “Horticulture is a non mechanized‚ non intensive form of plant cultivation performed non repetitively on a plot of land”(Nowak &Laird

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    2. About the Amish society The Amish are a group of people who are descendants of 17-century Mennonite immigrants mainly from Europe. Mennonite is a Christian group related to Protestant but in many ways‚ extreme. Jacob Amman is the founder and the first leader of the Amish. He believed that who violates the law of Mennonite should be banished‚ and this somewhat extreme idea led to Jacob Amman’s separation from the Mennonite. Since then‚ Jacob and his followers declared themselves as a different

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    is present in the United States whose values‚ practices and beliefs are very different from that of the dominant culture is that of the Amish. The Amish is a subculture as well as a religious sect whose values‚ practices and beliefs existed long before its introduction to the United States. Amish origin can be traced back to the sixteenth century and the Amish are direct descendants of the Antabtists‚ later known as Mennonites‚ a group that challenged the reforms during the Protestant Reformation

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    groups and people as they go about their everyday lives.” Ethnographers do this by going out and “getting close” to the participants for prolonged periods of time in their natural setting. Emerson et al. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes‚ p.1 Ethnography moves from the specific to the general. (inductive) Practice of providing ethnographic reports through a thick description--- notes that exhibit depth and complexity. As Neuman noted‚ an event could take 3 minutes‚ but require many pages of descriptive

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    Abdullah (08456762) Is ethnography fact or fiction? Writing ethnography is always a sensitive proposition since it involves representing a culture and social realities with countless factors to be taken into consideration‚ for example: power. Although‚ at times one still hears of it referred to as ideal and neutral ethnography that yields reality in the way it is presented without being questioned‚ criticised and diagnosed by personal values (Pratt‚ 1986:27). Ethnography cannot be easily pinned

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    Kevin Glazer Anthro-3 Chino Ethnography and Culture The article begins by giving an example of how most Americans approach the study of science. The quote states…“ most Americans observe whatever we wish to understand‚ introduce our own classification of what is going on‚ and explain what we see in our own terms.” Basically what the opening quote is implying is that instead of trying to understand why something happens‚ or why someone acts someway; we try to compare ourselves to the situation

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