12&13 Interviewing and Field Research

Question 1

field research

Answer 1

aka ethnography, participant-observation research, qualitative style in which a researcher directly observes and participates in small scale social settings

Question 2

members

Answer 2

the people who are studied in a field setting, belong to a group that the field researcher wants to learn about

Question 3

ethnography

Answer 3

stems from cultural anthropology, describing a culture and understanding another way of life from the native POV, people display their culture through behaviour

Question 4

explicit knowledge

Answer 4

what we know and talk about

Question 5

tacit knowledge

Answer 5

what we rarely acknowledge, ex. norms

Question 6

ethnomethodology

Answer 6

the study of commonsense knowledge, developed in the 1960s

Question 7

naturalism

Answer 7

observing ordinary events in natural settings, not in contrived, invented or researcher created settings

Question 8

field site

Answer 8

chosen based on richness of data, unfamiliarity and suitability, setting of research

Question 9

gatekeeper

Answer 9

someone with the formal/informal authority to control access to a site

Question 10

exchange relationships

Answer 10

small tokens/favours are exchanged, b/w researcher and members

Question 11

Direct Observation Notes

Answer 11

notes made directly after leaving the field, detailed description of what you just saw and heard, chronological

Question 12

Researches Inference Notes

Answer 12

applying your own interpretations to figure out what everything means

Question 13

Analytic Notes

Answer 13

notes to record plans, tactics, ethical and procedural decisions, and self critiques of tactics

Question 14

spatial map

Answer 14

locates people, equipment etc in terms of geographical physical space to show where activities occur

Question 15

social map

Answer 15

the number/variety of people, and the arrangements of power, influence, friendship, labour etc

Question 16

temporal map

Answer 16

the ebb and flow of people goods, services, schedules etc

Question 17

focus groups

Answer 17

qualitative research technique in which people are informally interviewed in a group discussion setting, 6-12 ppl, moderator, 4-6 groups per study

Question 18

guilty knowledge

Answer 18

when a researcher learns of illegal, unethical, immoral actions by the people in the field site that is not widely known