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Soc Final Practice Quiz #13

According to Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw, ethnographic research involves 2 distinct activities. These are...

first-hand participation in a social setting and the production of written accounts of that setting.

identifying a population of interest and sampling that population.

identifying a field site and gaining entry to that site.

deductively constructing a research questions based on the literature and gathering data to answer that question.

In ethnographic research, "getting close" involves all of the following except...

Social proximity

Physical proximity

Immersion in others' social world

Building and maintaining friendships

Fieldworkers can and should be completely neutral, detached observes who are outside and independent of the observed phenomena.

True

False

The ethnographer's main task is to identify "the truth" about what is going on in the lives of others.

False

True

_________________________ refer(s) to the effect of the ethnographer's participation on how members may talk and behave.

Bias

Reactive effects

Resocialization

Internal validity

Reliability

Even with intense resocialization, the ethnographer will never become a member of a setting in the same way that people "naturally" in the setting are members.

True

False

__________________________ describe(s) the experiences and observations the researcher has while participating in an intense and involved manner.

Participant observation

Research methods

Fieldnotes

Fieldwork

Writing fieldnote descriptions involves...

a standardized set of practices to correctly document everything you observe.

copying down facts about what happened.

interpretation and sense-making.

descriptions of activities only.

According to Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw, which of the following is not one of the implications of understanding ethnography as "the inscription of participatory experience" (11)?

What is treated as data is inseperable from the observational process.

Fieldnotes should not include the activities and actions of the researcher.

Fieldnotes should detail the social and interactional processes of people's everyday lives and activities.

Fieldnotes should give special attention to the indigenous meanings and concerns of the people studied.

Writing fieldnotes while fieldwork occurs is essential for writing broader accounts of people's lives.

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