Ethnography Research Addressing ethnographic inquiry Frances J. Riemer Groping in the dark When I began my first ethnographic research project‚ I wasn’t an ethnographer. I was a teacher and a student‚ living in the city‚ pondering questions about education and social mobility‚ poverty and work. I had enrolled in a doctoral program and taken classes in research methods‚ but I became an ethnographer by doing the things that ethnographers do. I learned how to ask questions by asking
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Cross-cultural studies in the social sciences[edit] Main article: cross-cultural studies The term "cross-cultural" emerged in the social sciences in the 1930s‚ largely as a result of the Cross-Cultural Survey undertaken by George Peter Murdock‚ a Yale anthropologist. Initially referring to comparative studies based on statistical compilations of cultural data‚ the term gradually acquired a secondary sense of cultural interactivity. The comparative sense is implied in phrases such as "a cross-cultural
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where are we going? Studying Clifford Geertz‚ Patricia Limerick‚ John Wideman‚ and Ralph Waldo Emerson has made it easier for me to answer my own question. These four authors of varying expertise tied together a common thread called culture. Clifford Geertz in his essay "Deep Play" brought us the world of cockfighting in Bali. In this essay he portrays the culture of our present American society through the use of the Balinese cockfight. Amazingly enough Geertz used what some would call a primitive
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Violence is often at the heart of those types of communities. -We are all neighbors documentary. - Terms: culture ethnocentrism ethnocentric fallacy relativism relativistic fallacy armchair anthropology participant observation fieldwork ethnographic method socio-cultural anthropology applied anthropology identity enculturation egocentric view of the self sociocentric view of the self gender third gender gender hierarchy hegemonic masculinity rite of passage world view metaphor ritual myth revitalization
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habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a particular society ’.[1] Ward Goodenough (1957)‚ another pioneer in anthropology stated that culture is ’the pattern of life within a community‚ the regularly recurring activities and material and social arrangements characteristic of a particular group ’.[2] Since the seminal work of Clifford Geertz (1973)‚ the older definition of culture as the entire way of life of people‚ including their technology and material artifacts‚ or that
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often employed to answer the whys and hows of human behavior‚ opinion‚ and experience-information that is difficult to obtain through more quantitatively-oriented methods of data collection. Researchers and practitioners in fields as diverse as anthropology‚ education‚ nursing‚ psychology‚ sociology‚ and marketing regularly use qualitative methods to address questions about people’s ways of organizing‚ relating to‚ and interacting with the world. There are about as many definitions of qualitative
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Nwoye‚ 1992; Kasper‚ 1990; Ting-Toomey; 1988‚ 1994; Watts‚ Ehlich‚ & Ide‚ 1992)‚ yet it has received no prior attention in the managerial literature. This paper is thus cross-disciplinary in nature‚ bringing to bear evidence from the domain of anthropology in the study of cross-cultural communication within business settings. This paper reviews empirical research findings relative to cultural variation in politeness norms and will show how these differences can have a profound impact on the success
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cannot be easily pinned down and categorised as to whether it is fact or fiction. That type of labelling could probably never do justice to the concept and practice considering ethnography metamorphosis over time; as in the immortal words of James Clifford‚ “ethnography decodes and recodes‚ telling the grounds of collective order and diversity‚ inclusion and exclusion. It describes processes of innovation and structuration‚ and is itself a part of these processes” (1986:2). It varies to suit certain
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In Religion as a Cultural System‚ Clifford Geertz makes strong claims explaining in a very logical way his definition on religion. While Keiji Nishitani precisely states his perspective on religion and how religion is a necessary journey in his excerpt What is Religion? I aim to prove that Nishitani’s view of religion is better and beneficial for humans than Geertz. Geertz definition of religion is a system made up of symbols. The symbols are what create the values‚ ideals‚ or “moods and motivations
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Cultural Approach to Organization Clifford Geertz and Michael Pacanowsky describe organizations as having their own culture like a web. Geertz described culture as a shared meaning‚ shared understanding and shared sense making. This means that any given organization has a particular culture in which the meanings for things are shared between individuals. Geertz has referred to himself as an ethnographer‚ do observe and analyzes social discourse in thick descriptions. Then‚ Michael Pacanowsky
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