Summary for Video Hunting for Good as seen on Frontline This video was about how to market to the teenagers in today’s society. Market Researchers focused on how to market “cool” to teenagers. A Market Researcher is someone who studies market conditions to find the best way to reach the local/regional/group they are marketing to. They found that the teen population is now the largest teen population ever (around 32 million). Because of this large population they are spending more money in
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Evelyn Blackwood’s 2010 ethnography Falling into the Lesbi World is worthwhile read for any interested in gender and sexuality studies in Indonesia. It takes a complex look at the understandings of lesbi desire‚ tomboi gender expression‚ kinship loyalty‚ and the nuances of adherence and defiance to hegemonic sex/gender systems. Despite some limitations‚ Blackwood manages to illustrate an elaborate network clearly‚ displaying a valuable knowledge of the linguistic practices of the lesbi she studied
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1. In The Sociological Imagination‚ Mills discusses personal troubles and social issues. Define both of these terms and discuss two examples of both personal troubles and social issues from a sociological perspective. According to Mills‚ personal trouble occurs within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with others: they have to do with his self and with those limited areas of social life of which he is directly and personally aware. A trouble is a private
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to provide culturally specific care. But before transcultural nursing can be adequately understood‚ there must be a basic knowledge of key terminology such as culture‚ cultural values‚ culturally diverse nursing care‚ ethnocentrism‚ " race " and ethnography. Culture refers to norms and practices of a particular group that are learned and shared and guide thinking‚ decisions‚ and actions. Cultural values the individual ’s desirable or preferred way of acting or knowing something that is sustained
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informants. Prior to departing for the Malay Peninsula‚ Raybeck was able to spend a semester in London studying some Kelantanese dialect at the School of Oriental and African studies. Raybeck relies primarily on anthropological fieldwork to compose his ethnography. His wife accompanied him‚ but he seems to have worked alone for the most part. His project proposed the use if a psycholinguistic device (the semantic differential)‚ to study traditional values in Kelantan village life. He hoped that the methodology
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Reading Keila Diehl’s Echoes from Dharamsala was‚ personally‚ an emotional ride. Her narrative does a phenomenal job of transporting the reader into a first-hand experience of “movement and being moved” (Diehl‚ 2002). Published in 2002‚ the book traces the nuances of life and music (as it is received and performed) in the Tibetan refugee community in North India during the last decade of the 20th century through the eyes and ears of Diehl. She set out to conduct research in Dharamsala in 1994 on
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interest essay aimed at a general reader (or layperson)‚ in which you will research and report on a group that you belong to‚ and 3) all Unit Three materials. You are part of a large culture (the study of cultures is called ethnography‚ and studying your culture is called auto-ethnography)‚ and you are part of sub-cultures (interest‚ activity‚ academic‚ and so on). Think of this project as a way to communicate one of your passions and creatively advertise your group to a general audience. Consider these
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The Gaze (John urry) - is an understanding how the tourist behaves by the regulation of the culture. Thus‚ rather than being ’out of place’ a person may be regulated by the gaze of others so they may embody the culture of difference. However‚ this does not always apply. A tour group of the same culture may find more comfort in the ’sameness’ of their fellow travellers. False Front (Boorstin) - Objective authenticity of toured objects treat authenticity as a property inhering in toured objects one
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Please identify and use a minimum of three scholarly articles from the library in addition to the text your research. Keep in mind that most anthropological research‚ whether article length or book length‚ is either an ethnography or an ethnology. You may use any combination of ethnographies or ethnologies in your paper. 3. Write a seven to eight page long research paper that does the following: a. Identifies and classifies the selected culture’s primary mode of subsistence. ( Foragers‚ Horticulturalists
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Chapter 2: Quantitative‚ Qualitative‚ and Mixed Research Answers to Review Questions 2.1. Describe the key features of quantitative and qualitative research. Just look at Table 2.1‚ which shows the key characteristics of these two approaches in their pure or extreme forms as well as the characteristics of mixed research. I will mention a few of these here. Quantitative research uses the deductive or confirmatory or “top down” scientific method; it is used primarily for description‚ explanation
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