Ethnography

Through the use of a camera and a journal, the author ensured the book can be adopted and used by modern travelers and students of Mayan history. Also, that the author used the technique of meeting the people of the Maya makes the book loved by ethnography students and lovers. Stephens did not just quickly peruse some displayed social and cultural artifacts and sites to collect information for the book; instead, he personally walked among and met the Mayan people to collect firsthand…

I believe it`s important to note that there`s no single, accepted way of carrying out a research. Indeed, how researchers proceed depends on upon a range of factors, including their beliefs about the nature of the social world, the nature of knowledge and how it can be acquired, the purposes, and the goals of the research, its participants or I would say the audience and time and environment in which they`re conducting. Differences in the mix of these factors have led to numerous variations in…

mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone. In other words, Homi Babha defined ambivalence as “a feeling of “off-ness” towards something you don’t understand”. I will be pulling from Are All Latins from Manhattan? Hollywood, Ethnography, and Cultural Colonialism (Ana M. Lòpez, 1993). A problem that is featured with ambivalence in the rise of Latino stardom is the fact that Latinos are being portrayed as “white” in their roles in films. To some these characters may not be…

This chapter is going to shed light on two distinctive feminist standpoint theorists: Dorothy E. Smith and Patricia Hill Collins. Among other feminist standpoint theorists, the feminist critiques of these two women stand out for me as applicable when analyzing Umm Zakiyyah's trilogy If I Should Speak. The mutuality Smith and Collins have is that they have sought a sociology which takes women's experience as a vantage point where they could see the full picture of society. They are empiricists…

Until this semester, I had not realized the importance of making arguments and supporting them properly. It honestly did not come as a shock to me, as I knew my past English teachers did not really care about teaching us proper writing skills. In high school, I was never made aware of my inability to properly organize a paper and make claims that I can fully support. The essentials of argument was something I had never heard of. Critical thinking, creating arguments and making claims were all…

power over men in the private realm, especially in managing households, family business or livelihood, finances, and sometimes in relationships. Her methodologies are social science research through sociocultural anthropology with data supplied by ethnography and feminist anthropology along with textual and archeological materials. Moreover, Elisabeth Tetlow and other scholars’ research revealed that women enjoy almost equal rights as men in the oldest civilizations of Sumer, Old Assyria, and…

Quantitative vs. Qualitative research It is always a philosophic question which type of research to choose. The answer to this question depends on the nature of the study, the type of necessary information and the availability of recourses (time, money and participants). It is important to take into account that two types of reaches are just two different philosophies, however, they are not contrary. Moreover, both methods can be used in mixed-methods researches. This type of approach becomes…

Aparajita: You know, whenever one talks of North Bengal, it is Darjeeling - the snow-capped mountains, beautiful forest bungalows, tea estates that comes to one’s mind. Next is Siliguri and NJP (New Jalpaiguri Station). So whenever I told someone that my husband is from Siliguri, who was born in Naxalbari …there was no apparent excitement… just the opposite a sudden dead silence. One obviously associates Naxalbari with Naxalbari movement and Naxalism. I always wondered what it was like to be…

even decades. Someone that moved around quite a bit must be doing something wrong. In the article, Fulginiti depicts her superintendent’s need to move her around because of her ability to discover the problems on a campus and implement change. Ethnography is an extremely important skill that educational leaders need to possess. Educational leaders are expected to figure out how to revolutionize a budget, kick start teacher moral, improve parent involvement, and increase test scores. This…

Unlike previous studies, Phinney et al. considers more subjective aspects of ethnic identity, and treats immigrant language proficiency as one of three factors contributing to it, along with parental cultural maintenance and ethnic peer groups. It finds language to be a significant aspect in ethnic identity in that it is reinforced by cultural maintenance and peer interaction (2001, p. 151). While participants’ relation to language varied with national origin, it played similar roles in…