Both scholars put a major emphasis on ethnographic work and immersing into society to find meaning. What is similar about both methods is the need to form connections. While they both differ in how and to what connections they are trying to make‚ it is important to see that functionalism and the
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Chapter 4: Data-collection in Qualitative Research This Chapter is about methods and techniques in data-collection during a qualitative research. We mentioned earlier that qualitative research is eclectic. That is‚ the choice of techniques is dependent on the needs of the research. Although this should be true for almost all social research‚ it is particularly so with qualitative research in that the appropriate method or techniques is often identified and adopted during the research. Qualitative
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The first of the four Approaches I will discuss is Attention to Speech. Taglimonte (2006: p.8) suggests that it is “the style from which every other style must be calibrated”. William Labov devised a sociolinguistic interview designed to produce a range of types of speech. His main interest was to obtain and identify data that represented people’s casual speech‚ rather than speech that was altered due to the presence of an observer. Most of the interview was conversational and produced two types
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The ethnography that caught my eye was “With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth On the Road and in the Streets” by: Marni Finkelstein‚ is an interesting and in depth look into the world of homeless youth‚ showing the reader the progression of the homeless youth and the tactics they use everyday to make this a lifestyle they chose. The Ethnography primarily takes place during the summer months and the homeless youth that Finkelstein interviewed and took information from were mostly based in the East
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Poetry in a Bedouin Society (Critique) The book‚ Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society‚ by author and anthropologist‚ Lila Abu-Lughod‚ who is best known for her work on women’s issues in the middle east‚ presents two years of fieldwork in Egypt among the Awlad’ Ali Bedouin community who have gone from living a nomadic lifestyle ‚ a farming system where animals are transported from one area to another in search for fresh grazing land‚ to living in villages where smuggling‚ raising
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Chapter 1 Introduction It was the development of ability to communicate through speech and tool making capacity that the Homo sapien sapien species got separated from rest of the higher mammals as these two capacities have been fundamental for ‘culture’ which is the most diagnostic feature of human society. In this the use of tools made of wood‚ stone‚ and bone appears to have been preceded. Thus “culture” could be broadly classed as material culture and non-material culture. Material
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Intercultural Communication as a Dominant Paradigm Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Communications‚ Victoria University of Wellington Matthew Scott and Grant Sherson April 1999 Introduction To begin an overview of intercultural communication it is important to attempt to clarify the concepts of communication and culture. What Is Communication? For this paper we will use a definition that communication is: “that behaviour which happens whenever
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quantitative data by means of surveys and experiments‚ field researchers gather qualitative data by directly observing an individual or a group and taking detailed notes. And while results from surveys and experiments are intended for statistical analysis‚ fieldwork is not concerned with statistical methods‚ even if it may at times include some quantitative data to enrich more subjective observations. As a research design generally set within the grounded theory framework‚ field research does not begin with
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ETHNOGRAPHIC METHOD This description of the HDSC is based on three years of fieldwork that evolved from site-specific‚ part-time ethnography into sustained‚ full-time ethnographic immersion in the HDSC. The evolving nature of our ethnographic involvement allowed us to experience and interact with different elements of the subculture as insiders. In a process of progressive
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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE VENTURES BETWEEN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS. A BRITISH-RUSSIAN CASE STUDY. John Walton London Metropolitan University j.walton@londonmet.ac.uk Gisèle Guarisco London Metropolitan University g.guarisco@londonmet.ac.uk Abstract This paper provides a case study analysis of an ongoing collaborative venture between a British and a Russian Higher Education (HE) institution. The paper provides evidence of how knowledge transfer‚ knowledge
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