Toolkit 9 Flashcards
1
Q
What is participant observation?
A
- ‘Being there’, ‘stepping into others shoes’
- participating in and observing social life
2
Q
Is participation immersed or detached?
A
Immersed
3
Q
Is observation immersed or detached?
A
Detached
4
Q
What is the three stage process of a research practice?
A
- gain access to a particular community
- live/work among the people under study to make sense of their world views and ways of life
- travel back to academy and write up account of community and their practises
5
Q
What is ethnography?
A
- Systematic study of people and cultures
- developed out of concern to understand world views and ways of life of actual people
- involves participant observation plus textual, digital, interview, numbers
