Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Go Native, Social Relation, Culture Shock
18 Apr 2017
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Researcher directly observes and participates in small-scale social settings. Appropriate when the research question involves learning about, understanding, or describing a group of interacting people. Beginning field researchers should start with a smaller group (30 or less) in a fixed setting allows you to get familiar with necessary steps without getting overwhelmed. Describing a culture and understanding another way of life from a native point of view . Considered a methodology (a collection of methods tied together by a theoretical orientation) Assumes that people make inferences displays of behaviour in each culture. Moving from what is heard or observed to what is actually meant is at the center of ethnography. Cultural knowledge includes symbols, songs, sayings, facts, ways of behaving, and objects. Explicit what we know we talk about (e. g. a kegger ) More of an orientation toward research rather than a fixed set of techniques to apply. Based on naturalism: observing ordinary events in natural settings.
