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🧠 UNIT III: FIELDWORK AND ENTRY INTO THE COMMUNITY - Coggle Diagram
🧠 UNIT III: FIELDWORK AND ENTRY INTO THE COMMUNITY
🌿 1️⃣ Preparation for Entering the Field
It allows the researcher to enter the study context in a planned, ethical, and respectful manner.
🔹 Concept
→ Obtaining permissions.→ Establishing ethical agreements.→ Methodological preparation.
🔹 Characteristics
→ Planned.→ Ethical.→ Flexible.
🔹 Objectives
→ Ensure an appropriate entry into the field.→ Protect the participants.
🔹 Importance
→ Promotes responsible research.
🌿 2️⃣ Role of the Researcher in Real Contexts
The researcher participates, observes, and interprets reality while maintaining a reflective and responsible attitude.
🔹 Concept
→ Observer.→ Participant.→ Interlocutor.→ Reflective subject.
🔹 Characteristics
→ Relational.→ Flexible.→ Reflective.
🔹 Objectives
→ Understand the context.→ Build meaningful relationships.
🔹 Importance
→ Allows the generation of situated and respectful knowledge.
🌿 3️⃣ Identification and Characterization of Key Actors
It allows the researcher to recognize people who have relevant knowledge, influence, or participation within the context being studied.
🔹 Concept
→ Identifies relevant actors.→ Analyzes their roles and relationships.→ Recognizes their influence.
🔹 Characteristics
→ Progressive.→ Dynamic.→ Contextual.
🔹 Objectives
→ Recognize key actors.→ Understand their roles and influence.
🔹 Importance
→ Allows a better understanding of the group's dynamics.
🌿 4️⃣ Adaptation, Negotiation, and Community Engagement
🔹 Concept
→ Adaptation: understanding norms and customs.→ Negotiation: establishing agreements.→ Engagement: building trust and reciprocity.
🔹 Characteristics
→ Dynamic.→ Respectful.→ Flexible.
🔹 Objectives
→ Facilitate integration.→ Strengthen relationships.
🔹 Importance
→ Improves access to and understanding of the context.
🌿 5️⃣ Documentation and Organization of Records
It allows the researcher to record, organize, and review the information obtained during fieldwork.
🔹 Concept
→ Field notes.→ Interviews.→ Photographs and recordings.→ Field logs.
🔹 Characteristics
→ Systematic.→ Organized.→ Reflective.
🔹 Objectives
→ Preserve information.→ Facilitate analysis.→ Compare data.
🔹 Importance
→ Strengthens the quality of ethnographic analysis.