SOCI 210 Lecture 6: Methods 2
28 Nov 2017
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The authors test whether this technique offers more accurate results. Find that rhc sample are different: women more partners, men fewer partners. Qualitative methods: an umbrella term capturing different methods. Textbook: interviews, participant observation, ethnography, case study of individual or small group. Ethnography: a type of participant observation that is broader, focused on cultural and perspectives of entire social setting, community: very common in anthropology. Idiographic analysis: want to understand a particular phenomenon, not general understanding. Qualitative methods continued: qualitative methods: are largely about how to get and interpret certain types of data. Interviewing: qualitative methods describe how to conduct interviews, how to choose an appropriate person to interview, how to write questions. Participant observation: qualitative methods describe how to observe people: not formalized like statistics, more of a skill one learns by doing. Textual analysis: qualitative methods describe how to gather, interpret, and categorize data from texts.
