BA 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Ethnography, Daniel Kahneman, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Ontology: interpreivism, vankatesh is an outsider looking at life from the inside. Subjecivist: just another day as an outsider looking at life from the inside . Epistemology: interpreivism:,he used qualitaive data (doesn"t use surveys ater his irst meeing with j. t. ), small sample (only the black kings in block 4040), looks for details(why does they gang act the way they do), unstructured (he observes them not knowing what will happen) Axiology: interpreivism: vankatsh his research is value bond. (he is biased, for example surprised when j. t. uses violence and he sees j. t. as his friend. Purpose: explanatory at irst via prof wilson (he tries to ind out what the inluence of speciic neighborhood factors is on young black man. Aterwards exploratory he didn"t have any theory to start with and he looked for new insights. Research strategy: survey at irst then switches to ethnograpy.
