Qualitative method- observations Flashcards

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Brief descriptions of study?- Foote Whyte?

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Italian American street corner, low income and a distinct relationship with gang and gang leader Gang culture in acceptance ‘doc’

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Learned answers to questions that he would have never thought to ask Comfortable environment for gang

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Dangerous study Gang victims

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Spent three and a half years in cornerville

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Overt participant obseevations

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Looks at he unification of church and why they where getting a bad reputation for brain washing their children, took 2 years to make contact with church Became friendly with moonies and created relationships in events Kept a diary to look at changing opinions to avoid going native

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Ethical- overt Gained trust Valid- wrote down a diary Concent- took 2 years to get concent

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Ethical- is gaining relationship with participants ethical Replicable- can be difficult to repeat

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Called moonies

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Participant observations

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Glasgov gand Teacher student gatekeeper (Tim) Teacher was introduced as student relative

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Could accses the group in their own environment Therefore info high in valid

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Found reaserch difficult in particular fitting in with group Patrick sickened by the violence in gangs Feared own saftey- dangers

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Patrick’s (teacher) occasionally made errors when trying to fit in with gang

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Walked into chicagos toughest housing projects, used questionnaires, soon got rid of doing this as it wasn’t appropriate to do in a predominantly black poor area -Befrenfed a gang leader and for a decade observed them drawing conclusion with raw data Hid what he was doing from academic advisors and became extremely involved in gang life The gang leader allocated Venkatesh became the leader for a day Perceived as a part of them

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Overt/non participant observations

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Very detailed Valid

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Went native Deception Doseny talk about consent No protection from harm- putting people at harm of life being ruined

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Becomes so involved residents avoided him Was a sociology student Lived at Robert Taylor homes at south side

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Getting in Staying in Getting out

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May find it difficult to gain entry within a group and gain rapport Influence by gender age ethnicity ect E.g Thornton trying to fit in to rave culture but she was older then most people their Griffin- Black like me, to fit into black groups took medication and went on tanning beds

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we need to stay in the group after gaining enterence, going native looses objectivety as reasercher begins to identify with the group until they become one and can turn bus e.g Punch- Studying police, found self assisting arrests. holding suspects etc Barker- Avoided going native with moonies by keeping a journal Whyte- Street corner society becaud lane a non participate observer and ended as a non observing participant

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Easier to do but can be difficult and can have problems Such as loyalty to groups, publishing research, and reentering reality e.g. Patrick- when leaving he had ti change identity and have to leave group early as couldn’t face violence that group carried out Venkatesh- difficult to get out of stufy because he liked the gang lifestyle

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Avoids ethical problmes of being deceitful/lying or gaining informed concent -The reasercher can ask more questions without fear of jeprodisring research -Notes can be taken openly and freely -The reasercher can check their interpretation with individuals in the group to check they are accurate

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-Refusal of rejection by the group -Hawthorne effect- Haregreve and mayo study -Time consuming to establish a relationship and trust

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-Reduced risk of the hawthorne effect etc Humphrey’s, gay voyeur experiment -Makes it easier to gain access to certain group particularly decievent groups -less time consuming

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-You have to keep act up or your cover will be blown (Patrick- buttoning up jacket wrong) -Can’t take notes freely or openly (Festinger forced to write up notes in toilet and rely on memory in order to not be found out) -Unethical- decorticating concent, lying, participating in immoral activity, moral duty to report illegal activity) -Risk of going native -Can’t ask certain questions in case suspicions aroused -Hawthorne affect can still be a problem

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-Npo can actually see for themselves how people behave in natural settings like the classroom where as in interviews they can lie - less likely than participant observers to get to drawn into group activity’s -More objective, less influenced by personal feelings about the group

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-It’s difficult for observers to see the world through the eyes of a group member if they don’t participate and k their social world -Npo is less likely than participant to understand things the day way as the group members -Observer affect may come into play with npo meaning group members may change their behaviour if they are aware they are being observwd

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To observe and record behaviour Set things we are looking for e.g. by tally or tick box

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When reasercher uses more then one method they may combine qualitative methods with quantitative methods

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Rich data Reliable

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Community studies- A number of studies on a whole community Case study- An in debut study of an individual or an event Life history- Type of case study to describe/interpret someone’s life

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Reliable Representative Valid