Writing

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artifacts

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any material object that belongs to and represents a culture

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authority

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an expert within a field, usually someone who has done reliable reserach and clearly presented data

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culture

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the invisible web of behaviors, patterns, rules, and rituals of a goup of people who have contact with one another and share common languages

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ethnography

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the study of people in other cultures and the resultant written text from thay study

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filednotes

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observations writen by a researcher at a research site, during an interview, and throughout the data collection process

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expanded feildnotes

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additional commnets and reflections made by the researcher once he or she has left the research site

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field writing

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a study based on data gathered during field research, as well as the process of drafting such a study

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ethnocentric

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projecting one's own cultural values onto others

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double entry notes

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field notes that are divided into a fileworkers observations of a filed site and informants and the fieldworkers personal refections about the site and informants. the purpose of this division is to make the fieldworker more aware of the difference betwen verifiable, tangible facts and his or her thoughts and feelings about those facts

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subculture

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a group of people who share common language, rituals, and behaviors

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objectivity

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in social science research, an unbiased opinion

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subjectivity

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ones own personal inner feelings and attitudes towards a given subject or topic, as opposed to objective, verifiable, concrete, factual evidence

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reflection

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the act of considering thoughtfully, looking back to gain insight

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thesis claim

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the controling idea of the esay. a thesis does not have to appear anywhere in the etxt but must be made firmly embedded in the writers mind and should be clear to the reader. the term is also used to refer to an extended original study about a subject (such as a master's theses)

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metacognition

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knowledge about ones own knowing, sometimes accomplished by trying to assess and evaluate the learning process

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informants

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a person who shares information about the meanings of his or her culture with a researcher; sometimes also referred to as a consultant, a subject, or "the other"

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participant-observer

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a reasercher who has become involved in the daily life of a culture in addition to observing it