Mini Ethnography Introduction Many anthropologists study their own societies rather than a foreign one. For this assignment‚ you will apply what we have learned in class to think like an anthropologist studying your own society. 1. Choose a location that you have never been to before. Write down some questions you have about that location concerning what you expect to see. 2. Spend 1-2 hours at that location “doing fieldwork.” Take detailed notes on your experience. Document your observations
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Parent Interview I interviewed Emily whose son Max has cerebral palsy. Q: When did you notice that Max needed Early Intervention services? A: I don’t want to get into too much detail but long story short is I had a very complicated delivery. I have two older sons and I noticed that Max was different than his older brothers were when they were babies. I started to notice some physical delays. Max wasn’t holding his head up and he wasn’t crawling. When I talked to Max’s doctors they told me to
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Abstract This essay describes the job of a tattoo parlor and the tattoo artist‚ and the interaction between the artist and the customer. The description is of a normal day where I visit Blue Moon Tattoo‚ watch a lady being tattooed‚ and receive a tattoo of my own. I describe the complete day in the parlor‚ from watching a woman find the perfect tattoo‚ to watching her getting the tattoo. Along with the description‚ the main point of this essay is to explain how people can actually be comfortable
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The Roundabout Interview What brought you to AA? My husband told me I had to go and if I didn’t he would tell our four grown-up daughters how bad my drinking was. I didn’t want to go but couldn’t bear the thought of the girls knowing so I went. Was there one thing that made you realise you had a problem with drink? I knew something was wrong with my drinking but the crunch was when my husband pointed it out to me. He told me that he was not prepared to go on the way things were. Him intervening
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Personal TV: A Qualitative Study of Mobile TV Users Yanqing Cui1‚ Jan Chipchase2‚ and Younghee Jung2 1 Nokia Research Center Helsinki‚ Ruoholahti‚ 11-13 Itämerenkatu‚ Helsinki 00180‚ Finland 2 Nokia Design Tokyo‚ Shimomeguro 1-8-1 Meguro-ku‚ Tokyo 153-0064‚ Japan {yanqing.cui‚jan.chipchase‚younghee.jung}@nokia.com Abstract. This paper describes a qualitative user study of mobile phone TV usage undertaken during September 2005 and centered on the real world Mobile TV usage of paying subscribers
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principles. As a Critical Care nurse I care for the dying patient mostly on a daily basis. During this process‚ I not only want to care for the dying but‚ I want to learn how I can ease the pain and heart break of the family. During my study of Theory and Ethics‚ I discovered Cornelia M. Ruland and Shirley M. Moore’s Peaceful End of Life Theory. This theory shows how theory addresses the holistic care required to support a peaceful end of life. I found this theory to be useful by being
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REASONS FOR CONDUCTING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Given these distinctions and definitions of a qualitative study‚ why does a person engage in such a rigorous design? To undertake qualitative research requires a strong commitment to study a problem and demands time and resources. Qualitative research shares good company with the most rigorous quantitative research‚ and it should not be viewed as an easy substitute for a "statistical" or quantitative study. Qualitative inquiry is for the researcher who
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Sociology is all around us‚ and by looking closely at it you are able to see how it has a deeper impact and shapes our lives. Society today has become fast paced and very reliant on technology‚ which has resulted in people’s lives changing and how we live them. I am greatly interested in whether or not our lives our becoming too modernised and if technology continues to expand in the way that it has been will there be a need for human skill and labour‚ as even the agricultural industry has become
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advantages of unstructured interviews in sociological research In this essay I will be examining the advantages of unstructured interviews; unstructured interviews gain qualitative data‚ which is data which cannot be analysed for patterns or trends. One advantage of unstructured interviews is it produces valid data; valid data is data that is true to life‚ opinionated and cannot be analysed. This is an advantage because qualitative data is received‚ anti-positivists prefer qualitative data as it gives
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In conclusion the interview coach Ruhanen we learned that intercollegiate athletic departments are more than what they appear to be on television. They are composed of many departments that aspire to contribute to the successful image of the team on an off the field. That it takes an entire department to raise a champion. Looking at specifically at the Athletic Performance for the Olympic sports division of our strength and conditioning program here at the University of Memphis we have learned that
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