essay exams and a paper. The first midterm and the final will be take-home essay exams. The paper can be from 10 to 12 pages in length. There are four options for the paper. The first option calls upon the student to do participant observer or ethnographic research on a religion or religious practice. The student who chooses this option will spend time throughout the semester in a particular religious institution or group that she is not affiliated with and record her experiences in a journal.
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51.70 percent of the people in Fresno‚ California are religious. Catholicism: Mexico is 85 percent catholic and Latin America as a whole leads the world in the highest catholic share of the population. 48.8 percent of the population of Fresno is Hispanic‚ which is the majority. California is 38 percent Hispanic‚ out of the entire Hispanic population of California 83 percent are Mexican origin. The religious majority in the city of Fresno‚ California is Catholicism at 31.82 percent. Armenian (Orthodox):
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A Critical Analysis of a Research Article: Cecile Wright‚ 1992. Early Education: Multiracial Primary School Classrooms in Racism and education: structures and strategies Introduction This paper is a critical analysis of an ethnographic research paper‚ which examined four inner- city primary schools in London. The study was conducted in 1988-9 by Professor of Sociology Cecile Wright and considers the significant cultural and perceived racial difference in the daily learning experiences and interactions
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Author Heather Montgomery utilizes her own ethnographic research to examine the ethical dilemma researchers are faced with when exposed to the vulnerable children in “Working With Child Prostitutes in Thailand”. Montgomery conducted her ethnographic fieldwork between 1993 and 1994 in a small slum community in Thailand. She lived among and studied the lives of young prostitutes. Simultaneous to her observation of such children who endure a lifestyle of prostitution‚ Montgomery recognized the juxtaposition
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Culture is dynamic; it is transmitted from generation to generation. Every culture experiences an inevitable influence by others. This cultural diffusion is spread among different cultures through individuals or groups of people. Therefore‚ the ethnographic represents a significant study that contributes to the best observation of social practices and interactions of members of a culture about their daily lives and costumes. An ethnographic interview allows us to question and understand the environment
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Nurses What exactly is a nurse? Nurses are no longer considered the doctor’s handmaid‚ but an important part of the medical team. Nurses tend to make up a culture within the medical field establishing a group of considerate‚ motivated‚ and intellectual people who take pleasure in helping others in a time of need. According to U.S. Department of Labor‚ nurses have been described to “work to promote health‚ prevent disease‚ and help patients cope with illness.” Nursing is a profession that blends the
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Observation Living in a small town with few cultural differences‚ people after years living around each other having adapted to each other’s culture-made it difficult for me to choose a place. After‚ asking the professor for an advice about where to complete my ethnographic report‚ as suggested to visit a church‚ I decided to visit the Sikh temple located in Delano on Sunday‚ January 7th. I drove by the temple‚ but no one was around‚ but a sign with the local number. Having called so many times-no
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READING ART- UNDERSTANDING ICONOGRAPHY The four basic roles of the artist is to record the world or keep a historical record‚ to give form to ideas and concepts‚ as well as feelings and philosophies‚ to reveal the hidden or universal truths and to show the world in a new way. History can be recorded visually. Back when much of the ancient art was created ‚ it was believed that most of the population was illiterate. So any form of art could serve as a record of that time and the population
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For my ethnography project‚ I will choose to study the life of a restaurant located a couple of blocks from my apartment. The name of the restaurant will be anonymous‚ so I will just refer to it as “Restaurant X‚” in addition‚ I will call the employees in this project by other names to protect their privacy. The main purpose of this ethnography is to compare the norms of the employees when the manager is present at Restaurant X and when he or she is absent. Norms are the behavior within a
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Critical Ethnographic Film Review Zapatista Zapatista‚ a film by Benjamin Eichert‚ Rick Rowley‚ and Staale Sandberg is based in the most southern state in Mexico‚ Chiapas. This films depicts indigenous people in Chiapas fighting for visibility and recognition against their country and government. When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed in to law‚ on January first 1994‚ the Zapatista National Liberation Movement (EZLN) rose up and seized several cities in Chiapas to fight
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