Musarrat Lamia ANTH 101.00-CN1/Schindler Final #4: The Anthropology of Ethnographic Fieldwork In anthropology, and with all sorts of research and studies, there are set guidelines that must be followed in order for the research to be considered accurate. In fact, how research is conducted can be studied anthropologically. Why do we feel that a finding needs to meet certain standards in order for it to be considered truthful?…
For everyone on this planet, there is a constant battle between the brain’s ability to hold on to independent thoughts, and the constant distractions the world has to offer. Billboards, television commercials, internet advertisements; everyone has experienced these intrusive means of promotion. All around society there is constantly something to draw one’s attention to. With that, it’s no wonder why people are less likely to find themselves doing tasks such as reading the newspaper, watching old films, or doing other things that aren’t as fast-paced as they are currently are. Both authors address the issue of attention today in Matthew Crawford’s piece “Attention as a Cultural Problem”, and Cathy Davidson’s “You Count While I Watch the Gorilla.”…
“What Are Your Pronouns: The Latest Craze on Campus” is an opinion piece by Jay Nordlinger written for National Review, which is a conservative political magazine. Nordlinger is a self-identified conservative faculty member at a private university, and his article rejects both feminist and queer theory language tenants. Overal, he criticizes the use of gender-neural pronouns calling the practice overly prescriptive and a craze. He begins the piece by telling a story in which he only used the pronoun “himself” to introduce both male and female facility members on an academic panel. This story was used to frame the conversation around the use of the universal-he as a natural and correct use of the English language.…
As human beings, it is our nature to group and label different items in our world. But how does one describe themselves? Our self-identity, in my opinion, makes us feel like someone. Self-identity includes our race, language, sexual orientation, culture, and many other attributes of ourselves including visual components such as body type. But according to Michael Hogg and Scott Reid, categorizing people holds them accountable to other similar groups and depersonalizes an individual person.…
Nevertheless, an observational approach to the gathering of information can be a natural way to analyze life experiences which makes it possible to often eliminate the obstacles of rigorous educational techniques since the analyst witnesses the way other people experience an occasion. A drawback to the descriptive research design is that the analyst's prejudice could play a role in different aspects. For instance, the selection, as well as terminology of questions for the surveys, can have an effect on the researcher's bias. The investigator may additionally generate subjective option regarding the data to document and highlight the…
Selfie, a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone and shared via social media. The youth of contemporary America have a social life that revolves around Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, YouTube or any virtual community people can share and exchange information on. Ralph Waldo Emerson, unlike the current 21st century American youth, celebrated the independent individual and scorned self-centered assertions and immature narcissism in his memorable essay “Self-Reliance”. Emerson would condemn the “selfie” generation as the best way to express one’s identity, one’s true self and its narcissistic ideals.…
Auto-ethnography is experienced first hand when the main character starts evolving into a Prawn. "A text in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations other have made of them" (Pratt…
Being an advocate is about taking an experience and influencing others to make a difference. Advocacy “is ‘answering the call’ to make a positive difference for yourself and others, for your community or the worlds” (Capecci and Cage 25). Every story has a meaning, and these meanings can be summed up in 6 words. I have thought about experiences in my life and came up with three six word reasons.…
The gender inequalities and role of women in the society are some of the other issues explored b y feminist photographers in the society…
Identity is the most significant factor that makes up the individual. Often what people identify as, are how they see themselves and how they want the world to see them. Each of the authors of the essays touches upon different identities, especially those that are more superficial. Somini Sengupta focuses on apparel and how in different environments, what one is wearing can give an idea of the type of person they are. James Sanborn discusses weight and its standard in the military, often driving militants to resort to extreme methods of weight loss to make it through the weigh-in.…
The male sex role theory popularized by Robert Brannon created a great foundation for gender studies, specifically studies concerning masculinity. The following essay will uncover his research design and analysis, his key contributions to the theory, and some strengths and weaknesses of his theory. Ultimately, the central premise is to show how his conception of masculinity and the sex role, in particular, has many faults and lacks evidentiary basis, which conclusively leads to its demise. First off, it is important to note that the nature of the research design is lacking in many respects. Robert Brannon’s publication of the male sex role theory adopted a mixed method analysis approach.…
Reflexivity continuously examines researcher’s systemic, epistemological and methodological reflexivity but reflexivity does not examine participant’s belief, assumptions, presuppositions, which also important issue to be investigated to get legitimate truth. According to Denzin and Lincoln (2000), the qualitative methodology faces a triple crisis of representation, legitimation, and praxis (cited in Day, 2012). The concept of reflexivity breaks this crisis into three important questions (Day, 2012). The questions are: First, in our representations of the social world, what are our underlying assumptions about the production of knowledge – how do we know, and who can claim to know? What is considered legitimate knowledge, and what role does power, identity and positionality play in this process?…
In regards to gender, the “nature versus nurture” debate refers the opposition between a biologically-based conception and one grounded in social psychology. On the “nature” side, gender is a matter of a person 's physiological makeup. There are varying accounts of what body parts specifically are indicative of gender, with gonads, chromosomes, and reproductive organs being among the contenders for criterion of gender. Regardless, on this view gender and sex are correlated, and “male” and “female” are the only existing categories. Those individuals born with the appropriate “male” physiology are men, and those with the corresponding correct “female” anatomy are women.…
qualitative methods , hence the concept of feminist ethnography is very important in research, specially qualitative.…
When planning a research proposal, it is important for a researcher to choose an appropriate research method to investigate the questions they wish to answer. The method the researcher choses is dependent on the type of research they are undertaking and usually falls under either qualitative or quantitative research, although in complex cases, a more mixed method may be required (Liamputtong, 2010, p. 9). This essay will define qualitative and quantitative research; discuss the epistemologies and methodologies and strengths and weaknesses of these research approaches in addition to comparing how they are used within the psychological research field. Qualitative research is primarily used when researching the social factors of life that cannot…