Ethnography

As a student of the College in the Schools program, the class WRIT 1301 has provided me the opportunity to improve my writing and prepare me more effectively for college. During this semester course I worked with peers to improve not only my own writing, but also improved my analysis of peer works of similar structure. My first paper, a narrative titled Confessions of A Living Sin, was arguably the easiest piece to create, while simultaneously being the most difficult to write. Narrative…

Nuer Lives Nuer Journeys is an ethnography about African Nuer who have migrated to Minnesota. The author of the book is the anthropologist Dr. Jon D. Holtzman. The Nuer are an African people, specifically from Sudan (Holtzman 2008: 2). The Nuer base their way of life around growing crops and raising livestock. Additionally, they belong to the Nilo-Saharan cultural/linguistic group and are a sizable ethnic group in southern Sudan. The Nuer became refugees during the second civil war in Sudan, a…

Aronowitz, Alexis A. Human trafficking Human Misery print Alexis A. Aronowitz is a professor in international justice, and her field of expertise is on human trafficking. What makes her an expert in this field is her knowledge of human trafficking, aggressive hate offenses, and aggressions well as criminology. Alexis has premeditated this course for teaching at the U.S and Germany universities and is at present an Assistant University lecturer of criminology at the University College of Utrecht…

Sociological Research Methods chapter 2 of the book Sociology in Our Times explains why sociological research is necessary and how research is conducted as well as the various methods that can be used. Also this chapter explains what surveying is and how it is used for research. In addition, Readers learn about the ethical issues in research and what measures are taken to protect research participants. In the book The Meaning of Sociology, reading four, Readers learn how people make and develop…

The prevalence of criminal activities in our society has really seized my attention. Every day, whether it is on TV or the radio, there is always some new crimes being reported. Some of these crimes are understandable if we take into account the offender upbringing and circumstance(s). But others are inconceivable, and allow no room for tolerance because of the criminal men 's era. Our society is witnessing various crimes that impel us to question ourselves, as to what might be the main factor…

Immigrants from all over have come to the United States for better life chances such as work, school, and to escape violence. Many people perceive the United States as the greatest country on Earth because of the many job opportunities and great schools housed there. Because people are migrating to new lands or countries, I believed that it must be hard for immigrant youths to excel or adapt to a new culture. I believed this because I previously worked at an elementary school where there were…

helpful descriptors in their book Energizing the Congregation. Dudley and Johnson offer five images, survivor, prophet, pillar, pilgrim, and servant to describe the character of different congregations. It is important to take the narrative and ethnography and interpret it to better understand the congregation and how it might meet its missional call. While Dudley and Johnson are careful to point out that it is rare for a congregation to fit into a single image the characteristics of the servant…

In this paper, I am going to conduct a brief ethnography based on the movie, McFarland, USA. Also, I will focus finding some of the most crucial ways that enable youth to make a sincere relationship with their friends regardless of any cultural elements such as languages or different norms. First of all, I would like to consider any difficulties and situations that prohibit youth having a genuine friendship. It is fact that everyone is living the world having their own culture. In other words,…

social life. It channels animosity and contention into an aberrant representative circle of engagement. The battles both speak to and partake in shaping the social structure of the Balinese individuals which are performed through the cockfight. The ethnography delineates not just the importance of a given social occurrence, the Balinese cockfight, yet in addition Geertz's interpretative approach that sees a culture as an arrangement of writings to be perused by the anthropologist. Geertz…

qualitative applies the participant observation, the setting is natural and the researchers get a direct viewpoint as they are actively involved in the study. Although, it cannot be redone, is expensive and time-consuming. Field experiments (ethnography) are done in a natural setting. These are valuable as show the real social interaction. However, this can bring an ethical problem as the “participants” are unaware of the study, hence the research needs to have their consent (Livesey, C., &…