Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fieldnotes, Ethnography, Moral Panic
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Lecture 7 adolescence part ii other adolescent experiences pavis & cunningham-burley (1999) These researchers wanted to understand the meanings and motivations of the young people on the streets: allows them to gain insight into the diverse, shifting, and value-laden contexts in which the youths" health-related behaviour occurs. They demonstrate important links between their street culture and their health: e. g. , includes the role of immediate and broader socio-economic and psychological factors. Methodology: part of a larger mixed methods (qualitative + quantitative) project that followed 106 male youth from the completion of high school into post-secondary. They narrowed their focus for subsequent analysis to the issue of leisure time: hanging out is when they were most likely to smoke, drink, and experiment with drugs. Ethnography: ethnography: literally means a description of a people or ethnic group , our fieldwork is also referred to as an ethnography.