SOC212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Alice Goffman, Illegal Drug Trade, Ethnography
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Distant methodologies: observation visible acts of deviance. Limit to visible acts: snowball sampling, moving from one informant to another, used for hard to reach populations. Not generalized, because u only get the people from the same circle. May come to the dead-end, when someone do not want to refer to other people. Or people only answer yes or no, no detailed: case study, case study of one individual or group, case of one community or setting or neighbourhood (ethnography) Advantage: can be conduct at any kind of study inexpensive, also can be used to test particular theory. James marquart, sign up to be a prison guard: be the insider and outsider the same time, ethnic issue. Inciardi study use multiple method: captive populations. Need to verify the things that people said . Indirect measures of deviance: archival records, content analysis. Media take data without check the accuracy.
