Ethnography

Do you remember what happened to indigenous people when Europeans arrived in South America in the XIV century with the desire to explore this land? They spoil the indigenous population not only with slave work and forest exploration, but spreading infections diseases among these people who had never contacted many kinds of pathogens. Hill and Hurtado (1996) has found that “first face-to-face contacts result in the death of between one third and half of the native population within the first five…

questions regarding our global state. In the plethora of new technology, virtual tourism has enhanced business structures, travel opportunities and reconceptualised what constitutes as travel. Roland is an anthropologist who applies the multi-sited ethnography approach and travels to the nation of Cuba to address the…

However, the concepts and ideas of Urban Anthropology existed long before the term did. Urban Anthropology as we see it today traces its roots to the turn of the twentieth century in Chicago and other cities. According to the text Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork (The Metropolis and Modern Life) “the first two published examples of Ethnographic research in a sociology journal were by husband and wife Ernest and Dorothea Moore in 1897 in the American Journal…

having a significant amount of literary merit for students. Many educators have attempted to test and study the benefits that reading censored books can have on students, and among them is Drew Chappell. Chappell, in his 2006 study, “Banned Book Ethnographies: A Project With 8th Graders” attempted to observe the effects that reading notoriously banned books such as Fahrenheit 451 and The Catcher in the Rye can have on the students that read them. Taking place over ten weeks, Chappell asked his…

The book, Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider’s Journey, by Robert J. Durán to be put simply, is about the gang life in Denver, CO and Ogden, UT. Durán created this book to share his research findings. When Durán moved with his family to Huntsville, UT (but went to school in Ogden) he found himself immersed in an area where gangs were becoming popular. Durán, an ex-gang member himself was curious on how and why gangs operate. He found this research important, because he saw firsthand how…

INTRODUCTION With the birth of mass media there is an opportunity for mass manipulation especially when this manipulation is directed towards a young generation that absorbs information like a sponge (Pomeranz, 2010). Youth are prime targets of media advertisers because they control a forty billion dollar market on their own, and have the purchasing power to influence a seven hundred billion dollar adult market (Barbaro & Earp, 2008). For this reason, it is important to thoroughly explore if…

scientific study of society and human behavior. According to Doctor Heck, sociology is the scientific study of human social behavior; studies processes and patterns of individual and group interaction. Elijah Anderson, a leading sociologist in urban ethnography, is the author of the Code of the Street. Code of the Street is a book about the reason behind violence in inner-city black America and the code that regulates it. He starts by introducing us to Germantown Avenue, an avenue in…

Also, an immense project that was done in the course, was the introduction and training of creating our own Wix page, which included projects that were completed throughout the semester such as; the prologue, synopsis, survey, research paper, and ethnography. With the completion of these projects, communications have been a major component that has improved…

Mead was able to prove that “genes don’t cause behaviors” (Kimmel 2013, 29). For that purpose, Mead agrees that one does not “simply inherit a male or a female sex role, but we actively–interactively–constantly define and redefine what it means to be men or women in our daily encounters with one another” (Kimmel 2013, 139). Gender is not an essential category and there is no universally distinct characteristic that is masculine or feminine. For that reason, I chose Sex and Temperament in Three…

When defining sociology, it becomes apparent that the social science is about observation. In fact, “sociology is concerned with problems of society, [and] to understand what sociology is about, one has to look at oneself from a distance” (Elias 1978:13). Thus, studying society in any context is best done when immersed in that culture. Specifically, the sociology of law focuses on the law in society; and therefore, observation of the law in use is likewise the best way to understand the…