Chapter 2

Question 1

Culture Shock

Answer 1

Experiences a person has when in a new or strange cultural setting

Can have it’s greatest effects when the researcher returns home

Question 2

Dialectic of Fieldwork

Answer 2

Process of informants and anthro’s bulding a bridge so that they can understand one another

Question 3

Fact

Answer 3

Widely accepted observation that becomes intelligible only when interpreted and placed in a context of meaning

Question 4

Fieldwork

Answer 4

Anthro’s taking information of a particular group down

Question 5

Intersubjective Meaning

Answer 5

Rooted in symbolic systems of a culture and showed by participants in the culture

Question 6

Multi-Sited-Enthnography

Answer 6

.Ethnographer follows process form site to site

Question 7

Objective Knowledge

Answer 7

Knowledge about reality that’s absolute and true for all people, all the time

Question 8

Participant Observation

Answer 8

Living and working with people to gather information

Question 9

Positionality

Answer 9

Person’s uniquely situated social position which reflects things about them

Question 10

Positivism

Answer 10

View that there’s a reality out there through the senses and that there’s a single appropriate scientific method for investing the reality

Question 11

Reflexivity

Answer 11

Thinking about the way someone thinks reflecting one one’s own experience

Question 12

Situated Knowledge

Answer 12

Knowledge that use set within or is specific to a percise context or situation

Question 13

Structured Interviews

Answer 13

Anthro’s getting information from other people

Question 14

Subjective Meaning

Answer 14

Seems true to particular person, based on their personal values, beliefs, opinions, and assumptions