in the field of ethnography‚ it’s a branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific descriptions of specific human cultures. We today find salvage paradigm‚ through representations in textbooks‚ art‚ and even to museums. Have what we have been holding on to for thousands of years ‚the background of our own mankind history been the truth or a conception build overtime‚ using salvage paradigm to help come up with a explanation. James Clifford and Virginia Dominguez discuss the intervention
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: Cultural Clash This book focuses on the “clash” of cultures that occurs between the Lee family‚ immigrants to the US from Laos‚ and the doctors that treat their daughter‚ Lia‚ who has been diagnosed with epilepsy. Lia’s parents‚ Foua and Nao Kao believe that Lia has fallen ill because she has “lost her soul”. This clash of ideas highlights one of the problems that the Lee’s faced when dealing with the medical community in the US – the Lee’s believed
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PS 101: INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE Fall 2003 Professor Marc Ross Overview. What is politics and how do political scientists study it? If this question were asked about one of the natural sciences‚ students would be given a short definition‚ examples of key problems it addresses‚ and an overview of the methods employed in the field. Political science‚ however‚ cannot offer a clear single answer. Rather‚ political scientists study politics in a wide range of settings and in a variety of ways
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What do our maps have to do with our views of the world? Maps never accurately demonstrate the world scientifically. Instead‚ it serves as more of a perceived notion of territorial borders and power. Any given map is subject to bias in regards to detail and size depending on where it was created. A country with multiple islands and curvy topography essentially pay more attention to the detail and accuracy of that region‚ as opposed to an equally detailed country on the other side of the world. Nationalism
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choice of methodology‚ which was applied by Russell. In this case‚ ethnography matches all the criteria for the research‚ because this method is meant to let researcher obtain more deep information from the researched and achieve “thick description” (Geertz‚ 1973; Cassel and Symon‚ 2004). However‚ this fact was doubted in the paper of Bate (1997)‚ where he described modern ethnography methodology as “quick description” and argues that it lacks of time observation. Moreover‚ Russell argues that her
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developed by Karl Marx‚ identifies class conflict as the primary cause of social change. * Max Weber felt that culture and politics as well as economics were important influences on society‚ and his emphasis on subjectivity became a foundation of interpretive sociology. * Emile Durkheim‚ considered the founding practitioner of positivist
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References: Anderson‚ Elijah. 1990. Streetwise: Race‚ Class‚ and Change in an Urban Community. Chicago‚ IL: University of Chicago Press. Arnold‚ Matthew. 1882. Culture and Anarchy. New York: Macmillan and Co. Geertz‚ Clifford. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York. Griswold‚ Wendy. 2004. Cultures and Societies in a Changing World. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Pine Forge Press. Halle‚ David. 1993. Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home.
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research. Students will be able to use methods as interviews‚ questionnaires‚ case studies‚ participant observation‚ and evaluative techniques. The course seeks to demonstrate the significance of the social sciences (sociology‚ psychology and anthropology) for design. It does this by describing and analyzing specific examples of the use of social science thinking and methods in design practice. Additionally‚ the social sciences are contextualized historically‚ especially in terms of the modes of
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processes and interaction‚ while phenomenologists consider the meanings of experience and describe the life world. Qualitative methodology is also useful in the exploration of change or conflict. The basis of qualitative research lies in the interpretive approach to social reality and in the description of the lived experience of human beings. Qualitative and quantitative approaches: underlying philosophies Social reality can be approached in different ways‚ and researchers will have to select
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Schegloff and Gail Jefferson at the University of California in the 1960s. It was developed in an intellectual environment shaped by Goffman’s work on the moral underpinnings of social interaction and Garfinkel’s ethnomethodology focusing on the interpretive procedures underlying social action. Sacks started to study the real-time sequential ordering of actions which are rules‚ patterns‚ and structures in the relations between actions. Thereby‚ he made a radical shift in the perspective of social scientific
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