Exam 6: Ethnographic Field Strategies

A research project that attempts to describe the entire way of life of a group with a focus on face-to-face interactions of members of the group or institution under investigation is called ________.

Explain the four distinct elements that go into creating full and detailed field notes:

A person who is in a position to grant or deny access to the research scenario by making the researcher's goals very easy, or very difficult or impossible, is called a(n) ___________.

How can a researcher record more exactly the events that occur during a field session?

Why is reflectivity important to ethnography?

The understanding of a social environment from an outsider position is called __________. This is the perspective created in the researcher's analysis, products of interpretations of meaning, theoretical and analytic explanations, and understandings of symbols as mediated through the researcher.

A procedure that allows a researcher to make assessments about the degree of affinity or disdain that members of a group have toward one another is called ______________.

What are the dangers of a researcher becoming invisible in a setting?

Explain the four steps to learning what to watch and listen for when conducting ethnography.

There are six ways that a researcher can strive for invisibility, or to see what's going on without being observed and hence, capture the essence of a situation. Describe how each method works.

When a researcher records sufficient detail that the reader can distinguish a wink from a twitch and a parody of a wink is distinguishable from an actual wink in order to discover the meanings behind the acts, it is called ___________.

A description that reveals aspects of a research subject by comparing it to other subjects in order to help the researcher see things a different way is called _________________.

When a researcher abandons the idea of absolute objectivity or scientific neutrality and attempts to merge himself or herself into the culture being studied, it is called ____________.

The worldview of the native inhabitants of a particular social environment, or insiders, is called ______________.

What are the three categories of field notes and what do they include?

Explain the term critical ethnography, and how it overlaps with, yet diverges from, conventional ethnography.

Which is NOT an element that field notes should consistently contain?

What are subjective versus external motivating factors for research?

A change in the definition of ethnography to include a set of highly formal techniques designed to extract cognitive data is called _________________.