Jackie Blue April 13‚ 2013 English 102 Ethnography Living Disabled in Boise: An Ethnography on the Disability Community in the Boise Area A man named Alphonse Carr once said “Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses” (“Disability Quotes Collection”). I am the oldest of four children of a single mother. All of my siblings are developmentally delayed. Seeing as how my first sibling was born when I was a year and a half old‚ I have been
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“People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.” -Sheila McKechnie Agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices and act in the world. Free will‚ according to Wikipedia is “putative ability of agents to make choices free from certain kinds of constraints. Do Finkelstein’s informants have agency? I believe they do have agency‚ just because they do not have one specific place to call home‚ does not mean they are not capable of making choices and
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where some might suggest that ethical problems are greater (Alder et al 1986). Punch (1994) goes further in suggesting that qualitative studies such as ethnography rarely‚ if ever‚ raise ethical issues (Orb 2000:93); however this statement is heavily debated. This essay aspires to discuss and analyse the ethical issues which arise in ethnography and discuss how valid and harmful these issues really are. The paper will also seek to discuss how researchers may overcome these ethical dilemmas and as
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Ethnography is a term that is typically associated with the discipline of Anthropology. The term has been adopted by many other disciplines beyond anthropology which allows for the word and its meaning to evolve along with the ever-changing societies in this world‚ yet some fundamental aspects have remained the same. Based off the readings done so far is‚ a working definition that best fits the interpretation of ethnography is the study and analysis of people based on culture‚ history‚ and society
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Within Moore’s ethnography the sociolinguistics of the Skateboarding culture was examined to better define the themes‚ and how (if possible) it would be helpful in communicating effectively with younger generations. Moore collected data through analysis of the social behaviors
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intensive involvement with people in their cultural environment‚ usually over an extended period of time. The term ethnography has come to be equated with virtually any qualitative research project where the intent is to provide a detailed‚ in-depth description of everyday life and practice. The relationship between P.O. and the ethnography is that‚ in order to write the ethnography‚ we get information using P.O. The importance of fieldwork is that the data the anthropologist gathers is more
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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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topicArticleId-26957‚articleId-26844.html Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia. (2013). Cultural anthropology. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_anthropology Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia. (2013). Ethnography. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia. (2013). Sociology. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology
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In his selection titled‚ “Introduction: Partial Truths‚” James Clifford asserts that ethnographies present “Partial truths” and‚ as such‚ are not entirely valid. According to Clifford‚ “Even the best ethnographic texts - serious‚ true fictions - are systems‚ or economies‚ of truth. Power and history work through them‚ in ways their authors cannot fully control” (p. 7). Due to these historical constraints‚ it is impossible for anthropologists to assert the ‘full’ truths about a culture and confidently
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Qualitative Research is a form of social inquiry that focuses on the way people interpret and make sense of their experience and world in which they live. In the words of Atkinson et al.(2001) it is an "Umbrella term"‚ and a number of different approaches exist within the wider framework of this type research. The main aim of most of the approaches is to explore and understand the social reality from the point of view of the individuals in the social context in which they live. The Qualitative methodology
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