Ethnography Basics
What is ethnography?
What is "research method that requires long-term immersion in a community to understand everyday life."
What is overt ethnography?
What is participants know the researcher’s real identity and purpose.
The researcher spent this long conducting fieldwork in Manchester and Cardiff.
What is one year?
Ethnographers often use this type of note-taking to record observations, impressions, and conversations.
What is fieldnotes
This rare and ethically questionable approach involves not revealing your researcher role.
What is covert ethnography?
Besides interviews, name one additional type of data the researcher used.
What is (any): fieldnotes, photos, social media, participant observation.
This term describes how the researcher’s own background and identity influence the research.
What is reflexivity?
Teaching in a supplementary Malaysian school would be an example of this type of observation.
What is active observation?
The ethnographer used this technique by joining students in events, traveling, and volunteering.
What is immersion?
These two methods are core to ethnography: one involves watching everyday life and the other involves speaking directly with participants.
What are participant observation and interviews?
Watching community events without joining in would be an example of this approach.
What is passive observation?
This type of school, where the researcher helped teach, played a major role in understanding community life.
What is the SKMM supplementary school?
This concept refers to describing cultural meanings in rich, contextual detail.
What is “thick description”?
Name three risks of ethnographic research identified in the slideshow.
What is (any of the following): confidentiality issues, emotional labor, researcher influence, or power dynamics?
Why was ethnography necessary for this study, according to the slideshow?
What is capturing the hidden pressures, emotional labor, and moral expectations of being a scholarship student abroad?