POL SCI 3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Institutional Review Board, Informed Consent, Ethnography
21 Nov 2016
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Classified in 4 ways: (1) direct/ indirect observation in natural setting, or ethnography. Field study open ended and wide ranging (vs. structured) Informants person willing to be interviewed about activities issues ex. Rummaging through trash invasion of privacy? and behavior and themselves and od the group they belong to (but possible bias) I: observation of physical traces of behavior, nonreactive, fewer ethical issues than direct (but can raise certain ethical. Evidence may border on direct observations if observation of traces quickly follow creation), may be low in cost: (2) participant/ nonparticipant. P: researcher is both actor and spectator (main problem: many significant instances of political behavior are not accessible for observation, lack of control over environment, limited by small number of cases: (3) overt/ covert, (4) structured/ unstructured. S: investigator looks for and records incidence of specific behaviors. U: all behavior is considered relevant, recorded and later investigator distinguishes between important and trivial behavior.
