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- insiders
- full access to knowledge about group
- full participant in local society
- also a socially designated role
- more subjective
- familiarity may hinder IDing issues or problems
- outsiders
- structurally challenged from gaining inside information
- barriers to empathetic understanding
- more objective
- can question familiar phenomenon
- can bring needed perspective
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| definition of participant observation |
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| process of immersing youself in a culture and learning to remove youself everyday from that immersion so you can intellectualize what you've seen and heard, put it into perspective, and write about it convincingly |
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| characteristics of participant observation |
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- gold standard of qualitative research
- provides access to lived experiences
- defining method of ethnographic research
- involves engagement in daily rituals, activities, events
- provides naturalistic setting for data collection
- systematically applied can provide data as useful to analysis as structured and semi-structured interviews
- enhance quality of interpretation of data
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| why participant observation useful |
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- experience
- what people say and do can be totally different
- gives access to natural setting
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| physically going out there, of gaining deep, cultural, knowledge, and insight through a process of interactive research and encounter |
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| skills for participant observation |
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- language
- explicit awareness
- trained memory
- ability to be a true observer
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- beginning of participant observation
- helps us learn about spatial configuration and temporal movement of high risk populations
- teaches us about social organization
- highlights importance of language
- reveals social networks
- provides important spatial clues
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- data collection process
- researchers ask local populations about cultural landmarks and high risk areas in their communities
- IDs locations either on conceptual or actual map
- introduces researchers to important areas of activity in the community and to key informants
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- familiarize researcher with community layout
- build up rapport
- ID key informants
- provides emic perspective of field
- useful for interventions
- advocacy
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