Preschool Observations Essay

While doing researchers, many anthropologists use the tool of ethnographic fieldwork. Instead viewing a culture from a bird's eye perspective, anthropologists insert themselves into the culture they wish to study. This is known as participant observation. However, when entering an unfamiliar culture and encountering unknown people, anthropologists first have to gain the trust of the people around them to learn about their lives. This is called creating rapport. In both The Spirit Catches You and…

Chapter 1 provides a definition and discussion of participate observation. This chapter explores the research method of participate observation, which involves a researcher who is interested in a certain group of people taking part in their daily activities, rituals and events in order to gain a holistic understanding of their life and culture. The chapter mentions that Malinowski is responsible for developing the method of participate observation. Although some anthropologist such as Tedlock…

On Campus Living and Residential Life For each critique, each of the moderators had a different way they carried themselves. There questionnaire varied as well as their follow ups to the responses of the participants. To start for the first moderator Sarah, I felt that going first was unbelievably challenging. The fact of having to conduct this focus group with no prior experience, as well as not being able to base hers off of a previous moderator is very difficult. Just by going first it…

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…

While reading both of my articles a short fictional story “The Ethnographer” by Jorge Luis Brogues came to my mind. In the story an indecisive college student with nothing singular is motivated by one of his advisors to conduct participant observation with a tribe to decode the secrets of their medicine man. On his return the university promised him to publish his work. He fully emerges on the lifestyle of the tribe and after two years the secret was reveal. On his return he refuses to publish…

Hortense Powdermaker’s book, Stranger and Friend, chronicles her experiences doing fieldwork throughout her career. In it, she discusses culture as shared meaning, where context and history give different components of a society social value. Through this process, essential qualities of a culture develop. The theory with which Powdermaker views culture, cultural essentialism, is one which uses these essential qualities as means of identification to form groups of people. This differs from…

Methods In this chapter, I explain why I decided to do a qualitative method as a part of my capstone. As a part of the qualitative approach, a questionnaire survey was developed for participants to provide input on their experiences. Even though quantitative data could have been collected, they do not allow students to express themselves as effectively as a survey would do. Survey questions were sent to outside observers to ensure that the questions being posed to the participants would be…

desk, another on a group desk with other people and the third in the magazine/newspaper area of the library. Each observation I stayed for approximately 30 minutes. During my observations, the library was heavily dominated with the presence of high school students,…

document the focus group interview: iPad, EOS Rebel T6, and notepad. The iPad will vocally record the interview using Awesome Voice Recorder. Whereas the EOS Rebel T6 will video record the participants. The video recording will be used for missed observations of non-verbal communication. Finally, the investigator will utilize a notepad for noticeable moments to review and or highlight during transcription and video review analysis. Upon completion of transcription from voice and video…

Any biases will be acknowledged and revealed in the final report of the research along with a collection of responses to interview questions and data related to observations of participants during interviews. Strengths of the study include awareness of the limitations of the study, prompting careful evaluation of the data gleaned from questioning participants (Leedy & Ormrod, 2010). The study seeks to provide a solid…