Participant observation

multiple qualitative research methods. She also used the member-checking process, where the participants were asked to confirm the accuracy of the transcribed data in order to strengthen the validity of the study. The document analysis was used to examine the participants’ resumes. Being able to analyze the resumes were both useful and applicable to the study because they not only highlighted the participants’ professional experiences, but also their educational credentials, professional skills,…

For this week’s assignment, I decided to participate in the study titled, Improving Witness Identification by researchers Mitchell Seymour and Mai Trinh of Edith Cowan University. The “aim of this study is to investigate processes that underlie identification procedures in the criminal justice system” (Scott, 2015). This study is presented in the format of a questionnaire, which is “a valuable way of gathering information about large numbers of people. [T]he results of questionnaires can be…

Chapter 32 (Rabinow) discusses the relationships with informants and the information they present to the anthropologist, Rabinow in her field work in Morocco. Rabinow mentions that ben Mohammed was among one of the villagers that were not afraid of him and was his host. His friendship with ben Mohammed deepened, they talked about a lot of things but the most apparent topic was regarding their separate traditions. The author mentions that for ben Mohammed the fundamental principle of Islam is…

Philippe Bourgois is an Anthropologist who, through extensive long-term participant observation, throws himself into the underbelly of contemporary American society. The dark, disturbing themes within his reality filled photo-ethnography, Righteous Dopefiend, attracted a wide audience. In ‘Righteous Dopefiend’ Bourgois and his research assistant Jeff Schonberg followed the lives of 24 homeless heroin injectors and crack smokers in San Francisco over a period of 12 years. The ethnography was…

Scholarly Context Communication has been generally defined as a transmission of signals through various channels that can be systematically interpreted through context (Clampitt, 2013). The term communication was derived from a latin word communis, which means ‘to make common’ and in that sense, communication is to make common of what one (sender) wants to message out to the other (receiver) (Frey, Botan & Kreps, 2000). It is an important, inevitable and unfortunately can be a complicated…

This approach studies individuals in their natural environment. It builds accounts of culture by utilizing observational methods to study how participants make sense of their world.17 One of the major advantages of using the ethnographic approach is the validity of the research and data is much more ensured compared to other qualitative approaches. The authors of the study used the ethnographic approach…

Fieldwork is an essential aspect of being an anthropologist, it allows anthropologists to learn about other societies and cultures. One of the most popular forms of fieldwork is participant observation which is when an anthropologist tries to enter the society and culture they are researching as deeply as possible, essentially becoming a local in that community (Hyland,2012 pp.28-29). Although, the anthropologist will always be somewhat a stranger which may limit the amount that the locals will…

This observation method is restricted at a specified length of time, as this type of observation can be very time-consuming. Continuous observation allows for the recording of changes in relation to behaviour and also the length of time these changes take place for. Any cases of target behaviour can be recorded in this method. Non-participant observation: Participants behaviours can be impartially defined and measured in this method of observation. Non participant observation develops…

locations that are different from home is on the rise. (burns) There is always a factor of wanting to learn and expolre the difference between societies, anthologists thrive in these situations where they can use qualitative methods, such as participant observation and interview to learn how a society function and interacts with one another. () Tourism and anthropology have been becoming more dependently on each other as time has gone on. With tourism there has been positive economical factors…

Feminist and oral history research investigates both cultural and social relationships within the larger context of historical events, economic pressures, and political environments (Buch 107). Ethnographies illuminate the connections and patterns that exist within the studied subjects’ social lives, including intricacies related to work, family, language, spirituality, among others. Unlike other forms of research which create distance between researcher and subject, ethnography relies heavily…