First, the textbook The Ethnographic Interview presents so many insights. When I read through these chapters, I gained much insight from the significant challenges it presented. On other hand, there are also encouragements for me to understand the difference between approach and methodology. Therefore, according my view of ethnographic interview I will recommend the approach more to another seminarian who has no exposure to ethnographic interviewing. Although, approach and methodology are used by us to describe the way ethnographic interview are done in cultural setting I prefer approach more because approach is the way you are going to approach the ethnographic interview. It also refers to the angle you are using or the direction you are going to take. There can be a more than one way to approach ethnographic interviews. In academic field, approach can refer to the theoretical framework you are going to use in researching ethnographic interviews. For example, if professor gives students a piece of literature or project and ask us to …show more content…
Therefore, ethnographic interview reacts to different situations on their findings. For me, an approach is the overall style or idea that one can adopted to overcome a problem or face a given situation. Approach is a generalized concept that describes the way a person reacts to your questions or behaviors where she / he was in or she / he faces tough situation. Approach remains at the level of an idea and does not involve steps that are time tested or proven. Therefore the intended series of actions in any given situation it sum up the approach. So the way a thing or a situation is handled is called the approach and it varies all the time with different situations and different individuals. There is not necessarily a formula with slight variations that can be measured in case of an
Murchison, Julian. Ethnography Essentials: Designing, Conducting, and Presenting Your Research. John Wiley and Sons, 2010.
A cultural assessment interview is very important when taking care of patients or their families who may be from a different culture than the nurse’s. In order to be able to better take care of a patient, we first need to know their own interpretation of disease and illness within their cultural context, values, and beliefs. Since I am Indian and my culture is a mix of the Indian cultural beliefs and my religion Islam, I was looking forward to this interview so that I am able to learn more about different cultures using my assessment.
Ethnography is a research method used to explore different cultures from a personal view. Many anthropologists have sought to use ethnography as their main study method because of its specificity and opportunity to get hands on. Those that participate in ethnographies are expected to accurately record detailed accounts of the society in which they are staying, but at the same time maintain a critical distance.
James P. Spradley (1979) described the insider approach to understanding culture as "a quiet revolution" among the social sciences (p. iii). Cultural anthropologists, however, have long emphasized the importance of the ethnographic method, an approach to understanding a different culture through participation, observation, the use of key informants, and interviews. Cultural anthropologists have employed the ethnographic method in an attempt to surmount several formidable cultural questions: How can one understand another's culture? How can culture be qualitatively and quantitatively assessed? What aspects of a culture make it unique and which connect it to other cultures? If ethnographies can provide answers to these difficult questions, then Spradley has correctly identified this method as revolutionary.
Research methodology, is an understanding of the different approaches used to conduct research. Within research methodology validity and reliability are important. The reason, researchers need to understand the methodology, before research is conducted is to ensure that they are using them correctly and ethically and also understand the key concept
Theories strive to explain how things work and thus sociological theory tries to describe how the social world functions. According to Calhoun, the social world consists of behaviors, interactions, as well as patterns of social organization amongst humans even though some would contend that the sociology of organized nonhuman animals is also possible (Calhoun 37). The sociological theory focuses more on the interactions and organization than behavior, essentially; however, the interactions are interpersonal behaviors that build patterns of social organization. Therefore, even though organization and interaction are subject matters of most theories, most theories, have traces of human behavior with emphasis on social organization and interaction.
My interview informant was a Hispanic/Latina woman named Blanca who now lives in Watkinsville, Georgia. She is 57 as of right now and migrated from Mexico to America when she was 30 years old with a valid visa. She left in the year of 1987 with her spouse who is also from Mexico to make a better life here. She comes from Ciudad. Victoria Tamaulipas, Mexico, and her husband immigrated first. She left with a college degree in accounting/business and so did her husband. She met her husband in Mexico when she was working at age 19 and got married at 23. Blanca has 4 daughters, and 3 are married and she has 5 grandchildren in total. Blanca has 6 sisters and 1 brother who live in Mexico. She works currently at H&R block and before that job she worked at
Thematic analysis is espoused to be the foundational approach to qualitative analysis and methods (Saunders et al., 2016 as stated in Braun and Clarke, 2006: 78) and it is a useful method used to identify and analyse the order and patterns of qualitative data (Attride-Stirling, 2001). Qualitative research method depicts the correlation that exists between data and events, creating the pictorial representation of what one thinks a given data says (Saunders et al., 2016). They also opined that, qualitative data analysis is cogent, interactive and iterative. Also, Joana and Jill (2011) and Saunders et al (2016) postulate that, qualitative research brings meanings from words and images as opposed to numbers. However, despite its robustness and rigour of its application, it is skewed more to the interpretivist ideologies since researchers draw conclusion from participants and the hypothesis being forecasted (Joana and Jill, 2011; Saunders et al., 2016).
The term methodology refers to the way in which we approach problems and try to find answers and in social science, it applies to how research is conducted, our assumptions, interest and purposes shape which methodology we choose (Steven, 2016:3).Qualitative research is understanding people from their own perspectives, their viewpoint and experiencing reality as they experience it. Qualitative research has many approaches or methods of collecting data and one of them is an interview which I have chosen to explain further based on it as a method of collecting data. The interview is the most common method of data gathering used in qualitative research and it is used in deferent ways by every main theoretical and methodological approach.
The qualitative interview offers researcher an opportunity to convey a conversational situation to discover the participants’ personal experience from the interviewer’s perspective and expressed in their own words. According to Seidman (2006), the interviewing conversations conducted in a qualitative research are based on the interaction between the interviewers and interviewees thereby generating/collecting effective research data. Kvale (1996) also states that interview just reflects another form of social interaction that relies on interviewee’s personal status and characteristics. He suggests such personal elements are potentially to affect the generated data and data analysis. Hence, it is essential for the interviewers to structure purposive conversations that are able to guide the interviewees to answer the questions in depth from the expected perspectives.
Every day, whether it is through our families, classes, churches, regional location, workplace, or the media we obtain unique views on how we feel the world should work in politics. Personally, during my lifetime these factors of political socialization, or the process of becoming politically aware, have led me to become a very liberal person for the majority of political issues. There is one view of mine that tends to lean toward the conservative side, but other than that from abortion to welfare I have a liberal ideology. My experiences with my close-knit family, conservative population at school, and the media are the largest influences that have shaped me into who I am today, and why I have these strong views on economic and social
Researchers of social science use a wide variety of research methods to gain and enhance knowledge and theory. The different types of research methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, are associated with the epistemological and theoretical perspectives the researcher wishes to adopt. This choice the researcher makes determines the way in which research should be conducted.
One cannot generalize or predict all human behaviors, thought processes, morals, and customs. Because human nature is dominated by different types of cultures and societies in various parts of the world, this can often lead to misunderstanding which ultimately leads to the illusion of cultural superiority, and in most cases this can lead to genocide - the systematic murder or annihilation of a group of people or culture. Anthropology is the study of humans, our immediate ancestors and their cultural environments this study stems from the science of holism - the study of the human condition. Culture is crucial in determining the state of the human condition, as the cultures are traditions and customs that are learned throughout an individual
Qualitative research strategies are those which able to draw the real meaning and informed by the interpretivist tradition under the social theory. Under this theory, the description and the explanation of the social planet is required to refer to subjective message (Taylor, Bogdan and DeVault, 2015). Interpretivist research focus to expose the fruitful aspects of cultural as under the case of social anthropology.
The Importance and Appropriateness of Utilizing Different Methodologies for Research. Introduction The process of research entails the logical as well as systematic search for useful data and information with regard to a specific topic (Jha, 2008). It is also comprised of the investigation of the best, most cost effective and appropriate solutions to both social and scientific issues, following an objective and logical analysis. Jha, (2008) defines research as the search for knowledge and the discovery of the truth. During this process, the data can be gathered from a wide pool of sources among them interviews, books, nature among others.The data can then be analyzed with the appropriate data analysis tools, so as to report the findings