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What is the Scientific Method? Quantitative vs. Qualitative? Natural Science vs. Social Science? Ethnography
◦ “description of the way of life, or culture of a society that identifies the behaviors and the beliefs, understandings, attitudes, and values… found in that social world” [Emerson/Berreman]
◦ “…fieldwork committed to describing the social and cultural worlds of a particular group”
Studying Culture Studying Meaning Inductive vs. Deductive Exploratory vs. Explanatory Example: The use of force by Police? Example: Religiosity?
Participating in order to observe◦ “Get your seat-pants dirty.”
Observing in order to write What to observe? Ethnographer’s interpretation Others’ interpretation Ethnographers’ interpretation of others’
interpretation