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How do you gain access to a field site?
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Steps:
1.Planning: know the background, who you are observing 2.Negotiations: contact the gatekeeper 3.Discloser: 4.Building Support: |
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What are some criteria for a vivid observation?
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Who are there?
What are they like? Their interactions? The physical setting: image, sound, smell atmosphere |
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How to observe "with a sociological focus"
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Episodes: divorce, crime illness
Cultural Rules: hidden rules of conversation, cultural rules of hospitality Social Role or Relationship: Professional Relationships, family roles |
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What to observe about yourself in the field site?
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1. General Principles
2. Be Specfic - your feelings - How are people responding to you? - Is your presence affecting their behavior? - Problems? 3. Observe your role in the field |
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Define Complete Observer
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observing without participating
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Define Participant Observer
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observing AND participating. Almost a semi- member, but let others in the field know you true identity
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Define Convert Observer
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pretending to be a regular member of the group while secretly taking field notes
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Whats going native?
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when one starts to build emotional ties with the studied group; when a researcher starts to identify with the group one studies and loses one critical distance in one’s observation
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Whats the Hawthorn Effect?
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when people observed during a research study temporarily change their behavior or performance
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Define ‘social episode/theme’
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observing the life course of the major social event, how that major event unfolds, of how conflicts build up, of how solutions succeed and fail, how ppl deal with it
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What is Power Dependency?
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when a researcher’s research activities is excessively controlled by the gatekeeper.
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What is Internal Validity?
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the assumed cause is truly the cause; achieved through randomization (or matching)
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What is External Validity?
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the causal relationship can be generalized beyond the experiment
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