Chapter 3: Fieldwork on Prostitution in the Era of AIDS 1. Based on reading this selection, how is ethnographic research different from other social science approaches to research? Answer: Ethnographic research is different from other social science approaches to research because it goes more in depth. With an ethnographic research you are required to eat, sleep, and breath what is being studied. In order to get a better understanding you will need to incorporate such living (as that of the culture…
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On Thursday afternoon from three to four, I spent a fair amount of time in the Undergraduate Library acquiring preliminary observations for my ethnography study. I was observing the use or absence of electronics while studying among the students present in the library. My first observation I made was that almost every single student in the library had headphones in their ear. Most were listening to music while they took notes where the screen of the device where the music was coming from was not…
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SCIENCE LITERACY INTEGRATION THROUGH CLASSROOM DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: AN EXAMPLARY CASE Research Context This paper focused on a yearlong ethnographic study took place in a first-grade classroom in Green Grass Elementary School (a pseudonym), a public elementary school in rural East Tennessee that serves communities of high poverty. However, the teaching contexts, practices, and the findings are relevant to grades K-12 with their shared core state standards and the inherent dialogical nature of…
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listed as “failing” and open to reform. A total of twenty predominantly low income, African American and Hispanic girls were included in the study. The method employed for addressing the question involved ethnographic case studies during the 2003-2005 school years. Through natural observation, data was collected, concentrating on detailed description of the subjects’ science practices, how subjects improved their science practices, the subjects’ learning of concepts taught in the “reform minded…
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independant non-profit association based in Toulouse, France. Its only aim and activity is the establishment of an open database of cultural observations. Data collection is under way, and database development is progressing. We would welcome help from others, and also academic participation and/or adoption of this project. A full presentation of the Cultures Observations Database, its raison d'être, its functions, and technical details are available here. The pilot version of the database, which requires…
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Objectivity and Fieldwork Researchers throughout the world most often conduct practical work in a all natural environment outside their laboratory or office in order to experience in firsthand what it is to live outside the society they have been exposed to all their lives, and integrate into another civilization that imposes cultural traditions and policies that the researcher may have never been imposed to in the past. These types of works or studies that ethnographers conduct are called fieldworks;…
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outcomes that help support that same mission. Process and outcome evaluations in a human service setting help the organization to better understand the outcomes of their programs and the processes in which the outcomes came. (Yuen, Terao, 2003) This paper will walk you through an explanation and outline of a process and outcome evaluation plan for the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency. This process and outcome evaluation plan would be helpful in the organizations…
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recommends a particular design. However, our research will be more helpful if we make our decision based on well-considered, suitable design rather than simply choosing a design that is more familiar or comfortable to the researcher. The purpose of this paper is to introduce graduate students and new researchers to quantitative and qualitative research design and to help them choose the best method based on the type of information needed and analytical capability. Quantitative Design & Analysis Quantitative…
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in behavior and social life of a culture which is very important part of history. Likewise, science is its own culture, which is built upon the behavior, factual ideologies and relics. In this observation paper I will observe a scientific workshop and try to understand its culture. The place of observation I selected…
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and qualitative research framework (Lin, 2018). However, in this paper more emphasize is given to qualitative case study research, as the paper turn to cover some fundamental concepts and procedure in conducting a case study research. In doing so, this paper develops some basic key concepts on the systematic procedure of adopting a case study research design. Understanding the methodology involve in case study research, this paper has also specifically discussed the following themes: A description…
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