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Recontextualizing Observation: Ethnography, Pedagogy, and the Prospects for a Progressive Political Agenda.

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This article characterized observation as the fundamental base of all research methods in the social and behavioral sciences and characterized it as "the mainstay of the ethnographic enterprise" (Werner & Schoepfle, 1987, p. 257).
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Observation has been characterized as “the fundamental base of all research methods” in the social and behavioral sciences (Adler & Adler, 1994, p. 389) and as “the mainstay of the ethnographic enterprise” (Werner & Schoepfle, 1987, p. 257). Even studies that rely mainly on interviewing as a data collection technique employ observational methods to note body language and other gestural cues that lend meaning to the words of the persons being interviewed. Social scientists are

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'This is men's ultimate': (Re)creating multiple masculinities in elite open Ultimate Frisbee

TL;DR: In this article, the Foucauldian notions of power and gender have been used to examine the complexity and diversity of masculinities produced in sporting contexts. But, they do not consider the role of women in sport.
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Sustainable practices of community tourism planning: lessons from a remote community

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine community tourism planning practices through the theoretical framework of deliberative democracy, and provide an example of best practices of integrating tourism planning and development into community comprehensive planning.
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Understanding, valuing, and teaching reflection in counselor education: a phenomenological inquiry

TL;DR: In this article, a phenomenological inquiry explicates the nature and the value of reflection in addition to how reflective practice is best taught and learned in counselor education, and suggests the explicit inclusion of deliberate types of reflective pedagogy within counselor education.
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