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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I, like others, in the same boat, feel the exigency of this orchestration, as I encounter the problems of differences in opinions between my students and me both inside and outside the classroom. ... Liberal education puts weight on the free exercise and association of knowledge facilitating 'polyvocality' consisting of various discourses.3 Nevertheless, the problems I have been faced with are significant in relation to differences-cultural or others. ... The aims of the course are: To introduce you to a range of major authors and works of the period To introduce you to key theme...

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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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