And with the investigation of ethnography is no different. Ethnography can be described as the investigation of populations. ... It seems that there is a gap in the research into online ethnography between subject and researcher. This problem is described in the article "Ethnographic Approaches to the internet and computer-mediated communication". ... To continue to effectively explore some of the main and enduring concerns of ethnographic research (such as the nature of specific social worlds and subcultures, the construction of identity, the beliefs, values, and world views under lying human...

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Ethnography is a description of peoples or cultures and involves the researcher going into the "field" to experience life with the chosen culture. ... Comparisons must also be made to other similar ethnographies, perhaps those based at other educational institutions or research carried out on students, say thirty years ago. An advantage of ethnography to study the students is that it has an open awareness of the role of the researchers "self" in the study. ... However this method does present many ethical problems because the students would not have consented to take part. ... Ethnogra...

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The strength of the book is that it includes the personal problems that emerge with the frustrations, boredom, tribulations, and misinterpretations that inevitably emerge in the context of "doing ethnography" as well as a true test of cultural relativism through out his journey. ... Fieldwork is made up of fact gathering data and turning it into ethnography. ... Then he needed permission to do research. ... Many anthropologist order their needs and have them shipped to the country of research but problems with that also exist due to customs, stealing, bribery, damaged, etc. ... He e...

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On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 at Gambrell Auditorium she spoke in regards to "The Sojourner Syndrome: Participatory research and women's health in Harlem, New York. ... Use ethnographic inquiry 2. ... Focus Groups -budget cuts -research in African American community -bereavement and loss -women head of household -birth experience -culture IV. Ethnographic Questionnaire *open ended interview based on: -background -social -environment -political -economic -attitude towards research -personal -perceptions of the future V. ... Pollution also impacts the birth pr...

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The ethnography is based on the identity and differences of the Beng. ... An experiment in ethnography that future projects might well emulate."... --John Mccall, Journal of Folklore Research. ... One of the reasons would be mental retardation or psychological problems. ... Overall the ethnography was very well written and full of details. ...

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In 1959 he published Words and Things, an ethnography which criticized and angered his philosophy teachers at Oxford. ... According to Gellner, the transformation of the "closed, intimate community" in which most people once lived into open, large-scale market systems produce "the central problem facing contemporary societies," the seemingly irresolvable conflict between an individualistic mode of thought and a desire for the spiritual comfort of community."... Thomas Nairn said: "I am one of many researchers in this area who feel the loss of Gellner deeply and personally. ...

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Ethnography is a collection of qualitative methods used in the social sciences that focus on the close observation of social practices and interactions in how they work with contrast to one another. ... The last type of ethnologist, a cross-cultural researcher, uses data to explain why different cultures vary and to find general patterns in cultural traits. ... They do not explain why each culture takes a different approach to the same problem. ...

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