importance of context to ethnographic inquiry. In the final part of the chapter‚ I shall highlight some of the ’central concerns of this topic by contrasting psychometry and ethnography‚ The chapter seeks to address the following questions: • - What do we mean by ethnography? • - What are the key principles guiding ethnographic research? • - How might one deal with threats to the reliability and validity of this type of research? • - Why is context important to ethnographic research? • - In what ways
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ENGL102_3T Final Draft Crawfishing in South Louisiana The splashes of the freezing spillway mixed with the cold wind coming off the water sent chills down my back. I yawned‚ the loud purr of the tugboat next to us made it impossible to hear my uncle ask if I was tired. We were passing the train of barges right after we left the launch and were headed into the woods. I have done all this before. It was all familiar to me. The only difference was that I had never been out here this early.
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Ethnographic Research Ethnography is a type of social science research that investigates the practices and life of a community‚ by becoming one of its members. It is based on learning about a context and the people living in it‚ by understanding their values‚ needs and vocabulary. It requires faithful reporting of what is experienced or observed‚ avoiding any interpretation or evaluation as far as possible. Within the field of experience design‚ ethnography or video ethnography are methods used
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In this essay‚ I will argue that ethnographic museums privilege viewing‚ at the expense of other senses. I will further argue that by privileging the visual‚ ethnographic museums become problematic in two ways- firstly‚ by not accurately representing the cultures they are supposed to be exhibiting‚ and secondly‚ by limiting the experience of museum-goers who may be visually impaired or otherwise unable to visit museums that are purely mono-sensorial. After outlining and discussing the problems associated
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Ethnographic Interview: Taiwan Culture Experience 1 Ethnographic Interview: Taiwan Culture Experience Vntge Jayne Clark Atlanta University Communication Cultural Diversity‚ Professor Howell March 14‚ 2011 2 PRECONCEPTIONS Culture is defined as the traditions‚ customs‚ norms‚ beliefs‚ values and thought patterning passed down from generation to generation (Jandt 2010). The world consists of many different cultures. In
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Name Date Ethnographic Observation I set out to find a place to begin my observations‚ not knowing what to fully expect‚ what I may find. So I decided to look around at what is close to my home that isn’t a place I frequent or have even visited at all. Then it came to me‚ the Starbucks that is only about a mile away is a perfect place for me to observe subjects that I would consider different from myself‚ seeing as how I consider such obscene prices for coffee ridiculous. Starbucks is a very
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identify the barriers to care my assessment is communicated to other members of the interdisciplinary team by way of using standardized terminology. This terminology is known as the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association-International (NANDA-I)‚ the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)‚ and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC). The patient scenario that
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study is the interactions inside a nursing home environment. I observed the social interactions between the elders and nurses‚ elders and family‚ and elders among other elders. The reason why I decided to study this particular group of people was primarily because my grandma currently resides in a nursing home. I also wanted to observe how elders keep up with relationships and social interactions when living in a nursing home. Although my grandma was at the nursing home where I did my observations
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Examine the advantages and disadvantages of using ethnographic methods for sociological research I am going to look at the advantages and disadvantages of using ethnographic methods for sociological research. Ethnography is in-depth research into people’s lives through the use of primary data such as Observations and Interviews‚ and also secondary data such as diaries‚ and official documents. The first method of research I am going to look at is a primary research method that is unstructured
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Ashli Rice Cultural Anthropology Ethnographic Paper March 25‚ 2013 Jehovah’s Witness Arriving at the Jehovah’s Witness meeting I was very nervous about what was to come. I knew that nothing radical was going to happen‚ there was going to be now speaking in tongues‚ or dramatic rituals‚ but because I knew I was entering into a different belief something just did not feel right. Although the feeling of the meeting was not exactly comfortable‚ I learned a lot from my observations. On Thursday
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