SOCY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Heritage Front, Ethnography, Participant Observation
16 Nov 2016
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The study of people and culture in their natural environment. Not in a lab but where they are comfortable. Very unstructured and involves observation in an unstructured way. In depth discussions that take place on an ongoing basis instead of just in a single snap shot in time or apposed to a cross sectional. To describe the point of view from the participants view. The researcher is immerse in the environment for a long period of time. Most of the time at least one year. Brittan would send in anthropologists to their countries and get them to report back. Participant observation is an observational part of ethnography instead of studying down we can now study up as well the researcher describes the participant throughout this continuum can be a completely detached observer doing participant observation. Malinowski and the trobriand island: bbs history.
