Getting in

Question 1

What may the initial contact be based around?

Answer 1

Personal skills
Having the right connections
Pure chance

Question 2

What is an example of personal skills?

Answer 2

Ned Polsky - A good pool player
Found his skill useful in gaining entry to the world of the poolroom hustlers

Question 3

How can the researcher gain their trust and acceptance?

Answer 3

May help to make friends with a key individual

Question 4

What may hinder acceptance?

Answer 4

The researchers age, gender, class or ethnicity may act as a barrier

Question 5

Who was Griffin?

Answer 5

A white man, tanned skin black to experience the first hand impact of White Racism towards black people in the Deep South

Question 6

What are the 2 roles the researcher should adopt?

Answer 6

• Be one that does not disrupt the group’s normal patterns
• A good view point from which to make observations

Question 7

Why may it be difficult to take a role?

Answer 7

Roles may involve taking sides in conflicts
= Researcher can become estranged, reducing observations