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Ethnographic Practice
Unit 1. Observation
• Initial and General
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Research is an inquiry, a search for new knowledge and new understanding.
You have to be curious, you have to want to know something new, you have to have some spirit of adventure. This implies an acknowledgment that the knowledge one possesses is imperfect and incomplete.
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Unit 2. Interview
• Casual Unstructured
In the first place, we could observe that interview is not exactly a lucky term, since it implies a formality that the ethnographer tries to avoid.
I prefer to call them conversations or discussions, which better indicates a free, open, democratic, two-way and informal process, and in which individuals can manifest themselves as they are, without feeling tied to predetermined roles.
The greater the incidence of the voluntary element and the lower the pressure from the management, that is, the greater the tolerance and permissiveness in participation, the greater the chances of achieving this state of spontaneity and reciprocity. This is more important the more extensive the contribution that is required.
• First Survey
In the interview, we have to probe the details of people's experiences and the meanings they attribute to them. That's the point where interviews break away from everyday conversations.
Unlike most people, the interviewer is interested in trivial events, daily struggles and experiences, as well as the bright spots in life.
Also, in contrast to natural conversation, interviewers cannot assume that they understand exactly what people mean.
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• Direct Questioning
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Indeed, there are those who totally exclude its use with the excuse that it belongs to a style of research whose basic assumptions are daily opposed to ethnography.
One of these is the belief that social events can be measured in the same way as natural events, hence the use of objective and quantifiable measures such as questionnaires, attitude scales, controlled clinical experiments and statistical tests of distribution, correlation and significance.
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