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Exam 2 Flashcards

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Process coding

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Use “ing” word to identify action in data; purpose is to identify forms of participation, action, reaction, and interaction suggested by data

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Values coding

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Labels participants beliefs, ideas, or values; explores cultural values, identity, integral personal and interpersonal participant experiences

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Emotion coding

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Emotional states or recalled experience by participant as suggested data

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Analytic writing

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Writing Key factors and regularities of data

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Descriptive and realistic writing

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Factual story telling of participants daily lives

Objective writing to paint vivid picture of reality for the reader

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Significant trivia

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Rich, small details that decorate and-set the scene in a written report

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Confessional tale

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  • researchers 1st person subject experiences
  • reveals emotions, dilemas, analytic errors
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Critical and advocacy writing

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Questions surveying manifest and latent (surface and hidden) meanings of people actions

  • result of power imbalances and looking for solutions
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Literary narrative writing

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Retelling of participants narrative to recount perceptions and experiences (nonfiction)

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Photovoice

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Photography accompanied with audio, recordings or text

  • a research presentation style

(Can be used at the end of ethnography essay question)

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Evidentiary warrant

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Presentation of data supporting the studies assertion (claim)
- concreate evidence

(Use for essay question about presentation)

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Peripheral role

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“A fly on the wall”
participant observation stance
- not participating directly
- witnessing and documenting environment (social life)

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Participant observation

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Watching and listening to the participant(s) act react and interact in social setting

Focus on the participant

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Thick description

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-Significance of people’s actions (complications and nuance)
-big idea

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Gate keepers

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People with the ability and authority to stop the research

-institutional review board

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Membership roles

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researchers position
-peripheral role
-active role
-complete role

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Geo-identity

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Personal attachment or qualities to country, city, region

-considering the site itself an active participant?

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Jottings

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Brief description/notes of observation

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Field notes

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Created by research during field study from jottings

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Observers comments

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Researchers impressions
-raw/uncensored
-subtexts maybe

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Reflexivity

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Individual reflection on data (personal)

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Analytic memo

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Extended research and commentary from field notes
-EX: interview transcripts/documents
-expanding on reflective narrative

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Descriptive coding

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Summarizing in word / short phrasing
(Most often as a noun)

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Versus coding

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Applied to data not to compare but to describe as binary (relating to)

EX: men vs women, commuter vs on campus

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Categories (relating to codes)

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Piles of codes
- word or phrase applied to a group pattern of similar codes

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Theme

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Phrase or sentence that identifies as to categorize data from topic to pattern of ideas

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Concepts

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Bigger picture beyond what is tangible (real/touchable)

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Proposition

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Predictive statement with two primary elements
-proposes a conditional event

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Antecedent conditions (exist)

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(before) - existing conditions, actions, and contexts from before observations

w/o this there is assumptions everyone is the same, unfair playing field

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Mediating variables (intervene)

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Context and actions influencing and affecting antecedent
-leading of specific outcomes

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Outcomes

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Interpreted, summative results of actions and reactions and interactions

  • consequences of antecedent conditions and mediating variables
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Vignettes

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field works in form of brief literary narrative (scenes or clips from data)

33
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Diagrams

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Visually illustrated representation of participants experiences

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5 properties of theory

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  1. Expresses patterned relationship between 2 or more concepts.
    EX: feminist theory (occupation & gender)
  2. Predicts & controls actions thru if then logic
    EX: if your assigned female then will be socialized to a specific job type
  3. Accounts for parameters of variations in the empirical observations (not theory)
    EX: focus on specific area (boundaries) feminist focus of gender not necessarily capitalism bc it’s not in their lane
  4. Explains how & why something happens by stating causes
  5. Provides insight & guidance for improving social life
    EX: equality and justice- what we do to solve things
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Material culture

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Conception of social life that produces and values objects & artifacts for consumption and daily living

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Netnography

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Ethnographic study through online/digital culture and participants

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Value system

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Individuals composite values attitudes and beliefs

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Manifest and latent contents

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Manifest - that which is readily observable in something (apparent and surface content)

Latent - that which is hidden or concluded in something

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Content analysis

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Analysis of material counting number of times certain words, images, themes or concepts appear

Quantitative: counting (frequencies)
Qualitative: thematic features and concepts

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Discourse Analysis

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Analysis of contents of narrative and visual texts
- focus on nuances of language, convos, & images to assess elements of vocabulary grammar etc.

Impart meaning about human relationships and ideas

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Documents

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Forms of textual communications that reflect perspective/interests of author

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Codeweaving

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Integration of primary codes of interest (brief narrative)
- analyze possible relationship

43
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Goffman on ethnography

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Inductive method or grounded theory, -front stage vs backstage behavior (blending in)
-exploiting place
-write as soon as you get out of the field and be as descriptive as possible relating to scene

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Mitch Denier’s Sidewalk

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Ethnography about sidewalk vendors, panhandler, and scavengers who were mostly black, poor and homeless men.

45
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Main point of nacirema

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Extremes to which human behavior can go
- don’t be surprised by exotic customs
- making the familiar strange
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46
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Semiotic analysis

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Focus of understating signs, objects or images imbued with social meaning
-Requires thick description

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