Ethnography key concepts

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Contextualization, culture, descriptive field notes, emic perspective, etic perspective, ethnography, field diary, field jottings, field log, field notes, holistic perspective, participant observation, reflective field notes, triangulation ...

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Participant observation

by Tran Nguyen - Saturday, 24 December 2016, 10:47 PM

It is when a sociologist actually becomes a part of the group they are studying in order to collect data and understand a social phenomenon or problem.

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