David G. Bromley
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195177299
- eISBN:
- 9780199785537
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177299.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Some of the most significant knowledge about new religious movements has been generated through participant observation fieldwork. A variety of methodological issues have emerged in the process of ...
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Some of the most significant knowledge about new religious movements has been generated through participant observation fieldwork. A variety of methodological issues have emerged in the process of conducting participant observation research, including how groups are selected for study, how access to movements is negotiated, how internal and external pressures are managed during the research project, how various sources of information are utilized and assessed, and how the research process is terminated. Since most students have had no direct contact with new religions and are primarily aware of the controversies in which some movements have been involved, it is important to create perspective for students as they engage in their own intellectual encounter with new religions. This process involves successively creating receptivity and a problem solving approach, understanding the available sources of information and their utility, working with various sources of information and gaining an understanding of the interests they represent, collecting and analyzing readily available information on selected groups, and engaging in a direct encounter with one or more NRMs.Less
Some of the most significant knowledge about new religious movements has been generated through participant observation fieldwork. A variety of methodological issues have emerged in the process of conducting participant observation research, including how groups are selected for study, how access to movements is negotiated, how internal and external pressures are managed during the research project, how various sources of information are utilized and assessed, and how the research process is terminated. Since most students have had no direct contact with new religions and are primarily aware of the controversies in which some movements have been involved, it is important to create perspective for students as they engage in their own intellectual encounter with new religions. This process involves successively creating receptivity and a problem solving approach, understanding the available sources of information and their utility, working with various sources of information and gaining an understanding of the interests they represent, collecting and analyzing readily available information on selected groups, and engaging in a direct encounter with one or more NRMs.
Cindy Dell Clark
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195376593
- eISBN:
- 9780199865437
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195376593.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Clinical Child Psychology / School Psychology
This book provides qualitative researchers with a guide to inquiry that learns from, with and about children. From fieldwork done during participant observation, to focus groups and depth ...
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This book provides qualitative researchers with a guide to inquiry that learns from, with and about children. From fieldwork done during participant observation, to focus groups and depth interviews, to the use of artwork, photography, play and metaphors, viable methods to foreground children’s views are featured. The tools for child-centered research and its interpretation are drawn from both academic and applied qualitative inquiry, providing broad instruction across a range of kid-attuned approaches. The book takes stock of a blossoming world-wide child-centered research movement, and its promise of better grasping children’s lives. Child-focused inquiry, the book insists, has relevance to both academic theory and practical application, including public policy.Less
This book provides qualitative researchers with a guide to inquiry that learns from, with and about children. From fieldwork done during participant observation, to focus groups and depth interviews, to the use of artwork, photography, play and metaphors, viable methods to foreground children’s views are featured. The tools for child-centered research and its interpretation are drawn from both academic and applied qualitative inquiry, providing broad instruction across a range of kid-attuned approaches. The book takes stock of a blossoming world-wide child-centered research movement, and its promise of better grasping children’s lives. Child-focused inquiry, the book insists, has relevance to both academic theory and practical application, including public policy.
Cindy Dell Clark
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195376593
- eISBN:
- 9780199865437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195376593.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Clinical Child Psychology / School Psychology
Participant observation is one of the sorts of observation discussed, with an emphasis on foregrounding children’s experience. Observation shares with methods of discourse analysis a way to vividly ...
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Participant observation is one of the sorts of observation discussed, with an emphasis on foregrounding children’s experience. Observation shares with methods of discourse analysis a way to vividly reframe a subject matter in more child-relevant terms. Often the results are unexpected and enlightening, for example, giving a better understanding of youthful social practices. Other observational forms are direct observation, unobtrusive observation, and contrived observation such as videotaping. The reality of doing child-centered participant observation raises challenges. The participant-observer must be socially adept, open, reflexive, tolerant of ambiguity, and able to sustain unrelenting effort. Issues of adult-child interplay are germane to child-centered participant observation. Such issues include: 1) the sort of role a researcher takes; 2) a need to avoid deference towards the adult by children, through a dialogical process of give and take.Less
Participant observation is one of the sorts of observation discussed, with an emphasis on foregrounding children’s experience. Observation shares with methods of discourse analysis a way to vividly reframe a subject matter in more child-relevant terms. Often the results are unexpected and enlightening, for example, giving a better understanding of youthful social practices. Other observational forms are direct observation, unobtrusive observation, and contrived observation such as videotaping. The reality of doing child-centered participant observation raises challenges. The participant-observer must be socially adept, open, reflexive, tolerant of ambiguity, and able to sustain unrelenting effort. Issues of adult-child interplay are germane to child-centered participant observation. Such issues include: 1) the sort of role a researcher takes; 2) a need to avoid deference towards the adult by children, through a dialogical process of give and take.
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199296477
- eISBN:
- 9780191711930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296477.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter begins with a discussion of participant observation. It then describes the first encounter with Good Samaritan Church and presents a definition of practical theology. An overview of the ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of participant observation. It then describes the first encounter with Good Samaritan Church and presents a definition of practical theology. An overview of the succeeding chapters is provided.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of participant observation. It then describes the first encounter with Good Samaritan Church and presents a definition of practical theology. An overview of the succeeding chapters is provided.
Jonathan P. J. Stock
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195167498
- eISBN:
- 9780199867707
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195167498.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter reviews approaches to the empirical documentation of music as found in comparative musicology, folklore studies, and through the fifty-year history of ethnomusicology. Means of gathering ...
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This chapter reviews approaches to the empirical documentation of music as found in comparative musicology, folklore studies, and through the fifty-year history of ethnomusicology. Means of gathering and measuring research data are shown to be linked to available technology as well as to prevailing intellectual paradigms. The central part of the chapter focuses on empirical aspects of participant-observation, including the keeping of field notes, interviewing, photography, and audio- and video-recording. Good practice conventions for data preservation are explained and illustrated. The chapter's coda emphasizes the importance of ethics in research that documents the voices of live people.Less
This chapter reviews approaches to the empirical documentation of music as found in comparative musicology, folklore studies, and through the fifty-year history of ethnomusicology. Means of gathering and measuring research data are shown to be linked to available technology as well as to prevailing intellectual paradigms. The central part of the chapter focuses on empirical aspects of participant-observation, including the keeping of field notes, interviewing, photography, and audio- and video-recording. Good practice conventions for data preservation are explained and illustrated. The chapter's coda emphasizes the importance of ethics in research that documents the voices of live people.
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195304343
- eISBN:
- 9780199785063
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195304349.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
This chapter further describes the context of the author’s participant-observation fieldwork situation in the towns of Udaipur and Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It also presents the ...
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This chapter further describes the context of the author’s participant-observation fieldwork situation in the towns of Udaipur and Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It also presents the scholarly understandings of South Asian society that ground the book’s arguments. It is demonstrated how changes in caste relations in the modern colonial and postcolonial periods, and especially the decline in importance of elite bardic communities, provided the author’s Bhat informants with opportunities to remake their caste identity in the particular manner explored in the pages of this book. This chapter takes pains to demonstrate continuities of experience between the formerly untouchable Bhats and other low status Dalit (“oppressed”) communities. The remainder of the book, however, points to the distinctive manner than Bhats, as low status bards participating in a declining village exchange economy referred to as jajmani, take advantage of changing historical contexts to rework themselves and the institution of caste in ways unique to this community of performers.Less
This chapter further describes the context of the author’s participant-observation fieldwork situation in the towns of Udaipur and Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It also presents the scholarly understandings of South Asian society that ground the book’s arguments. It is demonstrated how changes in caste relations in the modern colonial and postcolonial periods, and especially the decline in importance of elite bardic communities, provided the author’s Bhat informants with opportunities to remake their caste identity in the particular manner explored in the pages of this book. This chapter takes pains to demonstrate continuities of experience between the formerly untouchable Bhats and other low status Dalit (“oppressed”) communities. The remainder of the book, however, points to the distinctive manner than Bhats, as low status bards participating in a declining village exchange economy referred to as jajmani, take advantage of changing historical contexts to rework themselves and the institution of caste in ways unique to this community of performers.
Rachel Stanworth
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198525110
- eISBN:
- 9780191730504
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198525110.003.0004
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making, Palliative Medicine Research
This chapter discusses the data gathering methods the author used during her research: participant observation and interviews. Participant observation entailed a systematic description of events, ...
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This chapter discusses the data gathering methods the author used during her research: participant observation and interviews. Participant observation entailed a systematic description of events, behaviours, and artefacts. This type of data gathering method assumes that the observed behaviour can indicate deeper values and beliefs. The chapter provides a graph of the participants of the study, and categorizes them based on gender and age. It also specifies the criteria used in choosing the participants, such as those who were aware of their diagnosis and were comfortable talking about their situation. The chapter reveals the different reasons why the participants agreed to be included in the study, the external influences, and the possibility of a gender bias (there were more females than males who participated).Less
This chapter discusses the data gathering methods the author used during her research: participant observation and interviews. Participant observation entailed a systematic description of events, behaviours, and artefacts. This type of data gathering method assumes that the observed behaviour can indicate deeper values and beliefs. The chapter provides a graph of the participants of the study, and categorizes them based on gender and age. It also specifies the criteria used in choosing the participants, such as those who were aware of their diagnosis and were comfortable talking about their situation. The chapter reveals the different reasons why the participants agreed to be included in the study, the external influences, and the possibility of a gender bias (there were more females than males who participated).
Philip Balsiger and Alexandre Lambelet
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198719571
- eISBN:
- 9780191788666
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198719571.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
A growing number of scholars use participant observation when studying movements. Through active participation, researchers attempt to gain insights into mobilization processes as they take place, ...
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A growing number of scholars use participant observation when studying movements. Through active participation, researchers attempt to gain insights into mobilization processes as they take place, and understand activism from within. This chapter offers a practical guide to doing participant observation in social movements. An introductory section asks how participant observation has been used in social movement studies, defines the method, and situates it historically. The chapter then guides the reader through the stages of typical research using participant observation and discusses the main methodological issues that arise, using examples from the authors’ own work and from ethnographic studies analyzing movements. The chapter in particular addresses issues such as field access, selection of observation sites, relations with research subjects, and reflexivity in fieldwork analysis, with an overall focus on the numerous methodological choices and problems researchers typically encounter when doing participant research in social movements.Less
A growing number of scholars use participant observation when studying movements. Through active participation, researchers attempt to gain insights into mobilization processes as they take place, and understand activism from within. This chapter offers a practical guide to doing participant observation in social movements. An introductory section asks how participant observation has been used in social movement studies, defines the method, and situates it historically. The chapter then guides the reader through the stages of typical research using participant observation and discusses the main methodological issues that arise, using examples from the authors’ own work and from ethnographic studies analyzing movements. The chapter in particular addresses issues such as field access, selection of observation sites, relations with research subjects, and reflexivity in fieldwork analysis, with an overall focus on the numerous methodological choices and problems researchers typically encounter when doing participant research in social movements.
Geoff Pearson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780719087219
- eISBN:
- 9781781706145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719087219.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter provides an introduction to the discipline of ethnography and ethnographic modes of research, and an explanation of their appropriateness for the study of football crowds. It details how ...
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This chapter provides an introduction to the discipline of ethnography and ethnographic modes of research, and an explanation of their appropriateness for the study of football crowds. It details how the author utilised overt and covert participant observation in his data collection. It also problematises ethnographic study in terms of practical and ethical draw-backs. In particular it focuses on the problems of witnessing/committing criminal offences in the field, the dangers of ‘going native’ and issues of harm and anonymity.Less
This chapter provides an introduction to the discipline of ethnography and ethnographic modes of research, and an explanation of their appropriateness for the study of football crowds. It details how the author utilised overt and covert participant observation in his data collection. It also problematises ethnographic study in terms of practical and ethical draw-backs. In particular it focuses on the problems of witnessing/committing criminal offences in the field, the dangers of ‘going native’ and issues of harm and anonymity.
Marjorie L. DeVault
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226090948
- eISBN:
- 9780226090962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226090962.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This chapter provides a story about fieldwork traditions in sociology and the growth of qualitative methods and methodology in the second half of the twentieth century. It weaves its narrative around ...
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This chapter provides a story about fieldwork traditions in sociology and the growth of qualitative methods and methodology in the second half of the twentieth century. It weaves its narrative around three methodological essays from the second half of the century: Howard Becker's discussion of inference and proof in participant observation; Jack Katz's essay on a social system of analytic fieldwork, based on a study that included both participant observation and “loosely structured interviews”; and Ruth Behar's commentary on methods in a life history study. It brings forward three ideas. (1) Labels, languages, and emphases may have changed over the course of the century, but one can find a sturdy tradition whose shared strategies and commitments have been passed along, explicitly and implicitly, through generations of practitioners. (2) From its early days in social reform activities, the fieldwork tradition of “close-up” investigation has provided openings for “voices from outside”; yet in every period, researchers have struggled over the relation between science and social action, and the topics and consequences of field studies have been shaped by their social and institutional contexts. (3) Women as well as men have contributed to this tradition, but women have too often been “edged out” of the discipline or simply overlooked.Less
This chapter provides a story about fieldwork traditions in sociology and the growth of qualitative methods and methodology in the second half of the twentieth century. It weaves its narrative around three methodological essays from the second half of the century: Howard Becker's discussion of inference and proof in participant observation; Jack Katz's essay on a social system of analytic fieldwork, based on a study that included both participant observation and “loosely structured interviews”; and Ruth Behar's commentary on methods in a life history study. It brings forward three ideas. (1) Labels, languages, and emphases may have changed over the course of the century, but one can find a sturdy tradition whose shared strategies and commitments have been passed along, explicitly and implicitly, through generations of practitioners. (2) From its early days in social reform activities, the fieldwork tradition of “close-up” investigation has provided openings for “voices from outside”; yet in every period, researchers have struggled over the relation between science and social action, and the topics and consequences of field studies have been shaped by their social and institutional contexts. (3) Women as well as men have contributed to this tradition, but women have too often been “edged out” of the discipline or simply overlooked.
Rosina Márquez Reiter
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748637201
- eISBN:
- 9780748651559
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637201.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, English Language
This chapter outlines the research perspective adopted and describes the ways in which the data for this study were collected. The data for this book was obtained from the Latin American call centre ...
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This chapter outlines the research perspective adopted and describes the ways in which the data for this study were collected. The data for this book was obtained from the Latin American call centre operations of a multinational holiday exchange company, which is run along similar lines to time shares organisations worldwide. The discussion covers data and ethics, documentary analysis, non-participant observation, interviews and telephone conversations.Less
This chapter outlines the research perspective adopted and describes the ways in which the data for this study were collected. The data for this book was obtained from the Latin American call centre operations of a multinational holiday exchange company, which is run along similar lines to time shares organisations worldwide. The discussion covers data and ethics, documentary analysis, non-participant observation, interviews and telephone conversations.
Fiona Stevenson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199665372
- eISBN:
- 9780191748585
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665372.003.0004
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
The chapter examines observations of interactions as a means to understanding people’s experiences of health care. Focusing on non-participant observations of naturally occurring interactions, it ...
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The chapter examines observations of interactions as a means to understanding people’s experiences of health care. Focusing on non-participant observations of naturally occurring interactions, it considers how patients’ experiences in medical consultations may be understood through observations of the ‘work’ carried out in consultations. It outlines different approaches to data analysis, and the strengths and limitations of observational research. Different approaches to data collection are considered along with associated rationales and implications for analysis. It assesses how findings from observational research can contribute to improving patients’ experiences and inform and critique public policy. It concludes by examining the ways in which links between observational research and other research approaches can be made with the aim of improving understandings of people’s experiences of health care.Less
The chapter examines observations of interactions as a means to understanding people’s experiences of health care. Focusing on non-participant observations of naturally occurring interactions, it considers how patients’ experiences in medical consultations may be understood through observations of the ‘work’ carried out in consultations. It outlines different approaches to data analysis, and the strengths and limitations of observational research. Different approaches to data collection are considered along with associated rationales and implications for analysis. It assesses how findings from observational research can contribute to improving patients’ experiences and inform and critique public policy. It concludes by examining the ways in which links between observational research and other research approaches can be made with the aim of improving understandings of people’s experiences of health care.
Phil Hadfield
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199297856
- eISBN:
- 9780191700866
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199297856.003.0010
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This postscript provides a detailed account of the research design and methodology of the PhD project upon which the book is based. Issues addressed include those of the selection of research ...
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This postscript provides a detailed account of the research design and methodology of the PhD project upon which the book is based. Issues addressed include those of the selection of research settings, access to restricted data and powerful groups, reflexivity, ethics, and emotional management. The chapter describes how aspects of the author's personal biography helped shape the topics under investigation, the content and form of the fieldwork conducted, and the research activities and roles he assumed. It recounts how various unanticipated events, hurdles, and opportunities arose leading to the creation of both ‘dead ends’ and exciting emergent themes. It therefore illustrates the advantages of adopting or building-in inductive and exploratory techniques as part of a qualitative or mixed-method approach to social research. Clear benefits were accrued from embracing such ‘flexibility’ in the form of opportunities to gain more nuanced and complex understandings of the topic, forge interdisciplinary connections, and garner more rich and valid data.Less
This postscript provides a detailed account of the research design and methodology of the PhD project upon which the book is based. Issues addressed include those of the selection of research settings, access to restricted data and powerful groups, reflexivity, ethics, and emotional management. The chapter describes how aspects of the author's personal biography helped shape the topics under investigation, the content and form of the fieldwork conducted, and the research activities and roles he assumed. It recounts how various unanticipated events, hurdles, and opportunities arose leading to the creation of both ‘dead ends’ and exciting emergent themes. It therefore illustrates the advantages of adopting or building-in inductive and exploratory techniques as part of a qualitative or mixed-method approach to social research. Clear benefits were accrued from embracing such ‘flexibility’ in the form of opportunities to gain more nuanced and complex understandings of the topic, forge interdisciplinary connections, and garner more rich and valid data.
Karen M. Inouye (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780804795746
- eISBN:
- 9781503600560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804795746.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Chapter One examines the life and work of former inmate and sociologist Tamotsu Shibutani, and how the afterlife of a historical event can develop from a generalized sense of injustice and its costs ...
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Chapter One examines the life and work of former inmate and sociologist Tamotsu Shibutani, and how the afterlife of a historical event can develop from a generalized sense of injustice and its costs into a clear topic for scholarly study and political engagement. Though Shibutani had been interested in race relations and social disincorporation long before Executive Order 9066, and had worked for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study where he gathered ample data for his graduate theses at the University of Chicago, nearly three decades would pass after his release from camp before he began publishing on the complexities of interpersonal experience and social disincorporation. This chapter treats that interval, as well as the work that came after it, as a study in the trajectory of afterlife from lingering memories to explicit analysis, and from personal experience to broad political engagement.Less
Chapter One examines the life and work of former inmate and sociologist Tamotsu Shibutani, and how the afterlife of a historical event can develop from a generalized sense of injustice and its costs into a clear topic for scholarly study and political engagement. Though Shibutani had been interested in race relations and social disincorporation long before Executive Order 9066, and had worked for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study where he gathered ample data for his graduate theses at the University of Chicago, nearly three decades would pass after his release from camp before he began publishing on the complexities of interpersonal experience and social disincorporation. This chapter treats that interval, as well as the work that came after it, as a study in the trajectory of afterlife from lingering memories to explicit analysis, and from personal experience to broad political engagement.
Giovanni Bennardo and Victor C. de Munck
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199908042
- eISBN:
- 9780199369706
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199908042.003.0004
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
In this chapter we present and discuss the methodologies employed in search of cultural models. They range from qualitative data collections, for example ethnographic data, semistructured interviews, ...
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In this chapter we present and discuss the methodologies employed in search of cultural models. They range from qualitative data collections, for example ethnographic data, semistructured interviews, collection of life stories, to quantitative data collections such as free-listing tasks, sorting tasks, experimental tasks, surveys, social network surveys. Basically, three types of data are considered necessary: ethnographic, linguistic, and experimental. The analyses conducted on the data are both linguistic and statistical ones, including consensus analysis.Less
In this chapter we present and discuss the methodologies employed in search of cultural models. They range from qualitative data collections, for example ethnographic data, semistructured interviews, collection of life stories, to quantitative data collections such as free-listing tasks, sorting tasks, experimental tasks, surveys, social network surveys. Basically, three types of data are considered necessary: ethnographic, linguistic, and experimental. The analyses conducted on the data are both linguistic and statistical ones, including consensus analysis.
Edward Orozco Flores
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479884148
- eISBN:
- 9781479854561
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479884148.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This book presents two cases of faith-based community organizing for and among the formerly incarcerated. It examines how the Community Renewal Society, a protestant-founded group, and LA Voice, an ...
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This book presents two cases of faith-based community organizing for and among the formerly incarcerated. It examines how the Community Renewal Society, a protestant-founded group, and LA Voice, an affiliate of the Catholic-Jesuit-founded PICO National Network, foster faith-based community organizing for the formerly incarcerated. It conceptualizes the expanding boundaries of democratic inclusion—in order to facilitate the social integration of the formerly incarcerated—as prophetic redemption. It draws from participant observation and semistructured interviews to examine how the Community Renewal Society offered support for the Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality (FORCE) project, while LA Voice offered support for the Homeboy Industries–affiliated Homeboys Local Organizing Committee (LOC), both as forms of prophetic redemption. Both FORCE and the Homeboys LOC were led by formerly incarcerated persons, and drew from their parent organizations’ respective religious traditions and community organizing strategies. At the same time, FORCE and Homeboys LOC members drew from displays learned in recovery to participate in community organizing. The result was that prophetic redemption led to an empowering form of social integration, “returning citizenship.”Less
This book presents two cases of faith-based community organizing for and among the formerly incarcerated. It examines how the Community Renewal Society, a protestant-founded group, and LA Voice, an affiliate of the Catholic-Jesuit-founded PICO National Network, foster faith-based community organizing for the formerly incarcerated. It conceptualizes the expanding boundaries of democratic inclusion—in order to facilitate the social integration of the formerly incarcerated—as prophetic redemption. It draws from participant observation and semistructured interviews to examine how the Community Renewal Society offered support for the Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality (FORCE) project, while LA Voice offered support for the Homeboy Industries–affiliated Homeboys Local Organizing Committee (LOC), both as forms of prophetic redemption. Both FORCE and the Homeboys LOC were led by formerly incarcerated persons, and drew from their parent organizations’ respective religious traditions and community organizing strategies. At the same time, FORCE and Homeboys LOC members drew from displays learned in recovery to participate in community organizing. The result was that prophetic redemption led to an empowering form of social integration, “returning citizenship.”
Sunil Bhatia
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199964727
- eISBN:
- 9780190690243
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199964727.003.0009
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter documents the ethnographic context in which the interviews and participant observation were conducted for the study presented in this book. It also situates the study within the context ...
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This chapter documents the ethnographic context in which the interviews and participant observation were conducted for the study presented in this book. It also situates the study within the context of narrative inquiry and develops arguments about the role of self-reflexivity in doing ethnography at “home” and producing qualitative forms of knowledge that are based on personal, experiential, and cultural narratives. It is argued that there is significant interest in the adoption of interpretive methods or qualitative research in psychology. The qualitative approaches in psychology present a provocative and complex vision of how the key concepts related to describing and interpreting cultural codes, social practices, and lived experience of others are suffused with both poetical and political elements of culture. The epistemological and ontological assumptions undergirding qualitative research reflect multiple “practices of inquiry” and methodologies that have different orientations, assumptions, values, ideologies, and criterion of excellence.Less
This chapter documents the ethnographic context in which the interviews and participant observation were conducted for the study presented in this book. It also situates the study within the context of narrative inquiry and develops arguments about the role of self-reflexivity in doing ethnography at “home” and producing qualitative forms of knowledge that are based on personal, experiential, and cultural narratives. It is argued that there is significant interest in the adoption of interpretive methods or qualitative research in psychology. The qualitative approaches in psychology present a provocative and complex vision of how the key concepts related to describing and interpreting cultural codes, social practices, and lived experience of others are suffused with both poetical and political elements of culture. The epistemological and ontological assumptions undergirding qualitative research reflect multiple “practices of inquiry” and methodologies that have different orientations, assumptions, values, ideologies, and criterion of excellence.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226257433
- eISBN:
- 9780226257457
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226257457.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This chapter discusses some of the methodological, ethical, and practical challenges encountered in this study of U.S. homeland security. It addresses several methodological and ethical concerns that ...
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This chapter discusses some of the methodological, ethical, and practical challenges encountered in this study of U.S. homeland security. It addresses several methodological and ethical concerns that affected writing, how the choice of participant observation affected writing, and the interplay among ethnographic writing and informant confidentiality. The chapter also describes the research site and community, and the practical realities of sampling and studying in such a community.Less
This chapter discusses some of the methodological, ethical, and practical challenges encountered in this study of U.S. homeland security. It addresses several methodological and ethical concerns that affected writing, how the choice of participant observation affected writing, and the interplay among ethnographic writing and informant confidentiality. The chapter also describes the research site and community, and the practical realities of sampling and studying in such a community.
Harry Collins
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226052298
- eISBN:
- 9780226052328
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226052328.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Based in the sociology of scientific knowledge the book describes, in real time, two potential discoveries of gravitational waves, known as the Equinox Event and Big Dog. These were made by the LIGO ...
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Based in the sociology of scientific knowledge the book describes, in real time, two potential discoveries of gravitational waves, known as the Equinox Event and Big Dog. These were made by the LIGO and Virgo detectors. There is additional tension because the signals might have been deliberately injected into the detectors – so called ‘blind injections’. Scientific discovery is shown to depend on many kinds of decisions not normally thought of as belonging to science. The role and nature of statistics is also examined. Wider conclusions are drawn about the moral nature of science and about the methodology of the social sciences, particularly participant observation.Less
Based in the sociology of scientific knowledge the book describes, in real time, two potential discoveries of gravitational waves, known as the Equinox Event and Big Dog. These were made by the LIGO and Virgo detectors. There is additional tension because the signals might have been deliberately injected into the detectors – so called ‘blind injections’. Scientific discovery is shown to depend on many kinds of decisions not normally thought of as belonging to science. The role and nature of statistics is also examined. Wider conclusions are drawn about the moral nature of science and about the methodology of the social sciences, particularly participant observation.
Anthony Kwame Harrison
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780199371785
- eISBN:
- 9780190882129
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199371785.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This introductory chapter introduces ethnography as a distinct research and writing tradition. The author begins by historically contextualizing ethnography’s professionalization within the fields of ...
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This introductory chapter introduces ethnography as a distinct research and writing tradition. The author begins by historically contextualizing ethnography’s professionalization within the fields of anthropology and sociology. While highlighting the formidable influences of, for example, Bronislaw Malinowski and the Chicago school, the author complicates existing understandings by bringing significant, but less-recognized, influences and contributions to light. The chapter next outlines three principal research methods that most ethnographers utilize—namely, participant-observation, fieldnote writing, and ethnographic interviewing. The discussion then shifts from method to methodology to explain the primary qualities that separate ethnography from other forms of participant-observation-oriented research. This includes introducing a research disposition called ethnographic comportment, which serves as a standard for gauging ethnography throughout the remainder of the book. The author presents ethnographic comportment as reflecting both ethnographers’ awarenesses of and their accountabilities to the research tradition in which they participate.Less
This introductory chapter introduces ethnography as a distinct research and writing tradition. The author begins by historically contextualizing ethnography’s professionalization within the fields of anthropology and sociology. While highlighting the formidable influences of, for example, Bronislaw Malinowski and the Chicago school, the author complicates existing understandings by bringing significant, but less-recognized, influences and contributions to light. The chapter next outlines three principal research methods that most ethnographers utilize—namely, participant-observation, fieldnote writing, and ethnographic interviewing. The discussion then shifts from method to methodology to explain the primary qualities that separate ethnography from other forms of participant-observation-oriented research. This includes introducing a research disposition called ethnographic comportment, which serves as a standard for gauging ethnography throughout the remainder of the book. The author presents ethnographic comportment as reflecting both ethnographers’ awarenesses of and their accountabilities to the research tradition in which they participate.
