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Summary Ethnographic in Social Research
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- Social Research
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- Bournemouth University Talbot Campus (BUTC)
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W5 ISR: Ethnographic Research (Immersion into the unknown)Social Anthropology –
main strands of inquiry:
o politics, government
o ritual, religion, myths, beliefs, sorcery
o social change (e.g. modernity, migration)
o social structure/systems/organisation: caste, class, age groups, kinship
o methodology, theory
SA & ethnography:
o Characteristics by ‘British’ tradition 1920s – Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-
1942)
Immersion in the field
Remote (exotic) groups
Olympian stance vs ‘going native’
Ethnographic monograph
Rite of passage
Ethnographic studies of unfamiliar communities:
o Nancy Scheper-Hughes’ anthropological study on schizophrenia in rural
Ireland
o Entering as the ‘Other’ & temporary member of a community
Ethnography as moral quest –
Research ethics boards are gatekeepers
Access to ‘vulnerable’ groups guarded
Mental Capacity Act 2005 constraints inform REC processes
Research & journalism – double standards
Participatory exclusion of people with mental health problems
Methods –
Critical observation
Group interviews: focus group discussion
Individual interviews: structured; semi-structured, opportunistic
Field notes & memos
Community participatory action, asset mapping; indigenous research
Films & documentaries
Documentary data: information files, documents statistics
Methodology –
Differs from ‘methods’
This is the conceptual and theoretical framework
o e.g. using labelling/deviance perspectives’
o feminist approaches or Marxist theories;
o queer theory/disengagement approaches
methodology dictates which methods are used
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