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15 Cards in this Set
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Define: complex societies
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Nations; large and populous, with social stratification and central governments
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Define: cultural consultant
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Someone the ethnographer gets to know in the field, who teaches him or her about their society and culture, aka informant
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Define: emic
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The research strategy that focuses on native explanations and criteria of significance
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Define: etic
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The research strategy that emphasizes the observer's rather than the natives' explanations, categories, and criteria of significance
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Define: genealogical method
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Procedures by which ethnographers discover and record connections of kinship, descent, and marriage
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Define: informed consent
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An agreement sought by ethnographers from community members to take part in research
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Define: interview schedule
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Ethnographic tool for structuring a formal interview. A prepared form (usually printed or mimeographed) that guides interviews with households or individuals being compared systematically. Contrasts with a questionnaire because the researcher has personal contact and records people's answers.
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Define: key cultural consultants
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An expert on a particular aspect of local life who helps the ethnographer understand that aspect.
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Define: life history
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Of a cultural consultant; provides a personal cultural portrait of existence or change in a culture.
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Define: longitudinal research
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Long-term study of a community, society, culture, or other unit, usually based on repeated visits.
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Define: participant observation
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A characteristic ethnographic technique; taking part in the events one is observing, describing, and analyzing.
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Define: random sample
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A sample in which all members of the population have an equal statistical chance of being included.
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Define: sample
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A smaller study group chosen to represent a larger population.
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Define: survey research
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Characteristic research procedure among social scientists other than anthropologists. Studies society through sampling, statistical analysis, and impersonal data collection.
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Define: variables
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Attributes (e.g., sex, age, height, weight) that differ from one person or case to the next.
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