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ETHNOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH (FIELD IDENTIFICATION (SPACES AND SUBJECTS (A…
ETHNOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH
TYPES OF OBSERVATION
GENERAL
The results of a scientific investigation, whatever its branch of knowledge, must be presented in an absolutely clean and sincere way.
DIRECT
It is possible to record the behavior simultaneously with your concurrence. There are no retrospective or anticipated elements (memory failures). It does not depend on the interviewer's ability to give the information. It does not depend on the interviewer's desire to give or not give information.
METHODOLOGY
The two possible alternatives must be clearly formulated. Checks made show that very different answers are obtained, if the formulation of the question contains only one or both alternatives.
FIELD IDENTIFICATION
SPACES AND SUBJECTS
A detailed description of the scenario and the position of the people within it provides important apprehensions about the nature of the participants' activities, their interaction patterns, their perspectives and ways of presenting themselves to the other.
IMTERIM DIMESIONS
Field notes should not only include descriptions of what happens in a scenario, but also a record of the feelings, interpretations, intuitions, preconceptions of the researcher and future areas of inquiry.
MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS
Observers must record their own behavior in the field. People's words and actions can only be understood if they are examined in the context in which they were pronounced or performed.
FORMAL ANALYSIS
The clarification and extension of the data through a key report, which points to a basic comparison, to deeper considerations behind the observed actions and other related data.
INTERVIEW TYPES
INITIAL
The main personal attributes that are required in interviews are the same as in other aspects of research; and always revolve around trust, curiosity and naturalness.
OPEN
I prefer to call them conversations or discussions, which best indicates a free, open, democratic, bidirectional and informal process, and in which individuals can manifest themselves as they are, without feeling tied to predetermined roles.
SEMIESTRUCTURED
Interviewees can look for another type of contract. If that is a path for the acquisition of valuable information, the contract is worth it, although there is never a possibility of continuing the negotiation to ensure the optimal results for the investigation.
STRUCTURED
It is necessary to establish contact and make people feel comfortable. This means starting kindly and not asking intimate or intimidating questions. A number of good education formulas can be used and presented in a pleasant way.
CATEGORY CONSTRUCTION
RUDIMENTARY EMPIRICAS
give the material a form that leads to such purposes, and this means ordering the data in a coherent, complete, logical and succinct manner.
PARALLEL READINGS
The researcher will have to do some preliminary readings in order to get a glimpse of the field or the approaches that have been made, and will have to take into account work at the end of the investigation.
DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
In the research process, systems models are built and a theory is gradually taking shape, with its different characteristics of explanation and prediction that link the revealed concepts to form an integrated whole, whose operability has already been demonstrated.
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