Excerpt From The LGBTQ Event: Specific Steps for Data Collection

Final Methods Proposal
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Final Methods Proposal
Excerpt from the LGBTQ Event
“Rena and Jacob were both into Japanese culture pretty much so this left Victor and I chatting something else since it was hard for us to join their conversation or even to keep up with what they said. The background music was playing Lady Gaga’ s songs mostly. How can the DJ not be playing Lady Gaga, the gay icon, when it is an LGBTQ event? So I take the initiative and ask Victor: “Did you go to Lady Gaga’s concert in Toronto”? “Yeah! It was amazing! I love her so much”, he replied with his eyes almost turned into two lines due to the big smile on his face.”
This conversation was one of the most interesting aspects of my observation. My research aim was to study the LGBTQ community in their interactions. Most importantly, cultural interactions are not only limited to what people talk and how they talk about it but also what they listen to and how they interpret it. In this case, music from Lady Gaga was culturally and socially important to this group of people. As Lee (2017) notes: “as ethnographers get closer to the people they're studying, they begin to feel the same things they feel and get to see the people responding to life in various circumstances."
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The rest of this proposal is going to focus on the steps in the data collection process. These steps will clearly outline what shall take place at each stage and the kind of data and samples that shall be collected in each step. Then the next part shall consist of the rationale for the data collection method and steps that shall be identified. The following section shall identify some of the possible challenges with the identified data collection methods and procedures and how to minimize them. The last section shall focus on the conclusion that shall summarize the chief aim of this study.
Specific Steps for Data Collection
The LGBTQ community experience intolerance, discrimination, harassment and the threat of violence due to their sexual orientation than those who identify themselves as heterosexual (Subhrajit 2014). The challenges that this population are facing has prompted my research into their sociocultural interactions and behavior. Gomm, & Hammersley (2001) have highlighted on the human agency in social qualitative research which is characterized by two types of complexities which include diversity and processual complexity. Complexity in diversity is defined as “the behavior of one person, between people, across situations, and across cultures” while processual complexity “is that arising from the processual character of social life”. These two complexities in qualitative research are among the most prevalent in the LGBTQ community. The author propose that in order to understand and explore these social complexities, qualitative researchers “produce rich and detailed descriptions of social life, on the principle that if the social world is a complex place then simplification is misleading” (Gomm, & Hammersley 2001). This brings out the need for the thick description method as the most appropriate in solving the social complex...