SOCB05H3 Lecture Notes - Michael Burawoy, Barney Glaser, Participatory Action Research
28 Oct 2012
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Anthropologists are especially associated with field research, and have contributed to its development as a scientific method. Accumulation of empirical evidence is a demanding task, requiring extensive documentation, skills at observation and interviewing, sensitivity to situations, and the capacity to organize vast amount of material. Qualitative research analyzes the context of the issue you are researching, so it gives a better understanding of the issue. Field research is especially appropriate to the study of those attitudes and behaviors best understood within their natural setting. Good places to apply field research methods is on campus, court rooms. Field research incorporates a number of data gathering techniques and variations in perspectives concerning what questions should be asked and how they should be answered. Communicated through terms such as ground theory, interpretivism, ethnomethodology, phenomenology, social constructionism, institutional ethnography, extended case study and participatory action research. Both of these research methods are rooted towards the tradition of naturalism.
