Recontextualizing Observation: Ethnography, Pedagogy, and the Prospects for a Progressive Political Agenda.
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...Postmodernism emphasizes the importance of understanding the researcher’s context (gender, class, ethnicity, etc.) as part of narrative interpretation (Angrosino, 2005)....
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...) as part of narrative interpretation (Angrosino, 2005)....
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...A critique of researchers’ roles has developed “in response to a greater consciousness of situational identities and to the perception of relative power” (Angrosino, 2005, p. 734)....
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...Angrosino (2005) notes that observation pertains to three levels of specificity—descriptive, focused, and selective....
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...Observational research of this type has been evolving over time, with a shift in focus from the researcher as dispassionate observer to that of a participant observer interacting as a member of the community s/he is studying (Angrosino 2005)....
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...While the fi rst edition contained a detailed discussion of structured observation (Adler and Adler 1994), the relevant chapter in the latest edition (Angrosino 2005) refl ects trends that ‘question whether observational objectivity is either desirable or feasible as a goal’ (ibid....
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...4 Sometimes it is argued that many so-called natural settings, in particular in economically poorer countries, are not natural at all, because they are subject to ‘unnatural’ conditions of the colonial world (Angrosino 2005: 72)....
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...There are three criteria that help us to decide whether a proper relationship exists between the specific value and the other elements of the act (McCormick, 1973; McCormick & Ramsey, 1978)....
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...Observations in natural settings can be rendered as descriptions either through open-ended narrative or through the use of published checklists or field guides (Rossman & Rallis, 1998, p. 137; for an historical overview of this dichotomy, see Stocking, 1983a)....
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...…those dedicated to qualitative methods have devoted considerable effort to organizing their observational data in the most nearly objective form (i.e., the form that looks most quantitative) for analysis (see, e.g., Altheide & Johnson, 1994; Bernard, 1988; Miles & Huberman, 1994; Silverman, 1993)....
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...How are they similar to traditional communities or social networks? How are they different? How does electronic communication make new kinds of community possible? How does it facilitate existing communities? (Regarding questions such as these, see Gabrial, 1998; Hine, 2000; Jones, 1998, 1999; Markham, 1996; Miller & Slater, 2000). As Bird and Barber (2002) noted, “Life on-line is becoming simply another part of life in the twenty-first century....
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..., Altheide & Johnson, 1994; Bernard, 1988; Miles & Huberman, 1994; Silverman, 1993). Adler and Adler (1994), in fact, suggested that in the future observational research will be found as “part of a methodological spectrum,” but that in this spectrum it will serve as “the most powerful source of validation” (p....
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...Bernard, H. R. (1988)....
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...This position, associated with the philosophical writings of Cahill (1981), Curran (1979), Hoose (1987), and Walter (1984), assesses “the relation between the specific value at stake and the ....
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