chapter 5 Flashcards
Ethnographic fieldwork
anthropologist is emerged in culture to collect data
participatory action research
anthropologist works with the locals in research analysis
community based participatory research
collabs with community to solve a problem in society and achieve social change
6 preparing for fieldwork
funding, health precautions, permission to enter and research in that country, learning the native tongue, knowledge of the culture you are entering, making arrangements to leave your life behind
stages of research
- selecting a research problem
- formulating a research design (how are you going to collect data)
- collecting data
- analyzing data
- interpretation the data
- writing and publishing
advantages of participatory observation
- better relationships with respondents, therefore more in depth convos
- seeing the difference between what people say and what people do
- more accurate picture of what’s going on
- avoids biases of self-reporting data
- provides real time data
disadvantages of participatory observation
- the more time-consuming and in depth, the few people can be observed
- synthesizing, coding and comparing the data is harder
- efficiency of recording on site
- hawthrone effect- altering of subjects behaviour because they know they are being observed.
3 types of interviews
unstructured interview, semi structured, structured
reflexive ethnography
focus on a influence of the ethnographer, like their cultural context and personal bias , on the ethnography also focus on collaboration between the ethnographer and the cultural expert
autoethnography
anthropologist will learn about the culture by focusing on the their own experiences being emersed in this culture
life histories
collaborators life story/experience being in that culture
multi-sited fieldwork
studying is conducted in more than one location, they look not only at local community, but migrants, media, etc
new information technology
using social media and internet to collect data
3 ethics of field work
- respect for persons studied
- concern for welfare- can’t jeopardize people’s mental and physical health
- justice- treat people fairly, no discrimination
AAA ETHICS
- responsibility to people studied
- responsibility to group and community
- responsibility to colleagues
- responsibility to sponsors
- responsibility to your own/host government
