HLTHAGE 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Professional Wrestling Attacks, Botulinum Toxin, Impression Management
13 Dec 2016
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Useful for exploring the complexity of the socla world, the meanings people assign to their experiences, how social processes work the organization of every day life celebrates the multi dimensionality and complexity of social life. Useful for exploratory or descriptive research its able to answer the following questions (how do people assign meaning to their experiences, how do people interpret social worlds, how do thigs work in a particular context) A mode of observation that involves face to face interviews can be combined with other methods. Vary according to control (structured, semi-structured, unstructured) unstructured: researcher has no control but participant has full control semi-structured: researcher has interview guide/schedule contains a list of topics structured: Do not have a clear beginning or end. Goal is to obtain in depth information about an interviee"s feelings experienes, perceptions and perspectives. View #1: informed by anti-positivism interview is an interactional accomplishment, situated conversation and social occasion interview is a friendly conversation.
