Research methods
There are two general categories of social science research: Quantitative and ____________.
Qualitative
This term refers to the act of being in activities even as we observe them.
Participant observation
Ethnographers aim to understand social and _______ processes.
cultural
These three authors wrote an important guidebook on how to write ethnographic fieldnotes
Emerson, Fretz and Shaw
The distance between me and most of you.
10,428
This word refers to all the material artifacts that document your research, including field notes, transcripts, and artifacts.
data
Ethnographic questions often begin with this three letter word.
How
Ethnographers need to be ________ about how the world works.
curious
This sociologist theorized about how girls and boys construct ideas about gender through their play.
Barrie Thorne, author of Gender Play
The No. 1 ranked public university in the United States (according to US News and World Report)
U C L A !
A survey of research related to our topics is summarized in this.
a literature review
This is the name of the data we record when we write about what we saw in our observations.
Fieldnotes
This four letter word starting with e refers the perspectives of outsiders to a setting.
etic
This educational scholar is someone you've become very familiar with this summer.
Marjorie Orellana
This giant, rotating monster has impacted our class in Shanghai.
typhoon
We use this term for the names we give to key ideas and patterns in our data in qualitative research.
Coding
This term is used to make the point that our lived experiences and social positions can shape both what and how we see things in the field.
Positionality
This term refers to the perspectives of "insiders" in the contexts we study.
emic
This sociologist studied how people learn to become doctors in medical school.
Howard Becker
57% of the population of the city where Xirui is studying for his MA degree can speak these two languages.
French and English.
This names a way of orienting to research questions by using particular kinds of theories to pay attention to particular things.
Theoretical (or conceptual) framework
This term is used for people who have important or "key" perspectives on the issues we study. We often seek to interview these people.
Key informants
James Spradley coined this term as a good general kind of question to start ethnographic interviews
Grand Tour questions
This educational researcher provides guidelines for studying classrooms as cultural contexts.
Carolyn Frank
The topic of Chonsie's Master's research at Fudan University
androgyny in contemporary science fiction