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- 1Ethnographyit self-consciously tries to bring the social science findings to an educated lay audience. A goal to educate the public about social scientific knowledge. Field research that emphasizes providing a very detailed description of a different culture from the view point of an insider in the culture to facilitate understanding of it.
- 2Thick DescriptionQualitative data in which a researcher attempts to capture all details of a social setting in an extremely detailed description and convey an intimate feeling for the setting and the inner lives of people in it
- 3Naturalismthe principle that researchers should examine events as they occur in natural everyday ongoing social settings
- 4defocusinga technique early in field research by which the researcher removes his or her past assumptions and preconceptions to become more open to events in a field site
- 5field sitea natural location where a researcher conducts a field experiment
- 6go nativeaction in which a field researcher becomes overly involved with the people being studied and loses all distance or objectively and becomes joined with them
- 7gatekeepera person in an official or unofficial role who controls access to a setting
- 8attitude of strangenessa field research technique in which researchers mentally adjust to see events in the field as if for the first time or as an outsider
- 9freeze outspeople studied in field research who refuses to cooperate with the researcher or to become involved in the study
- 10focus groupa group of people informally interviewed in a discussion setting that is participating in a qualitative research technique
- 11argotthe special language used by the members of a subculture or group who interact regularly
- 12acceptable incompetenta field researcher who pretends to be less skilled or knowledgeable in order to learn more about a field site
- 13analytic memosnotes a qualitative researcher takes while developing more abstract ideas, themes, or hypotheses from an examination of details in the data
- 14frontspeople in a field site who engage in actions and say things that give an impression or appearance that differs from what is actually occurring
- 15emicconcept or approach developed and used within a specific cultural setting but that may not exist elsewhere
- 16eticconcept or approach that is universal in the international scientific community or widely shared across multiple cultural settings
- 17human relation area filesan extensive catalog and comprehensive collection of ethnographic on many cultures that permits a researcher to make comparisons across cultural units
- 18open codingthe first coding of qualitative data that examines the data to condense them into preliminary analytic categories or codes
- 19axial codinga second stage of coding of qualitative data during which the researcher organizes the codes, links them, and discovers key analytic categories
- 20selective codingthe last stage in coding qualitative data that examines previous codes to identify and select data that will support the conceptual coding categories that were developed
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