An Invitation of Ethnography
Each reading reaction paper will be evaluated based on the following expectations or criteria (not all criteria will make sense for all readings):
• Understand and explain the main argument of the reading
• Identify and define key concepts used
• Try to place the reading in the larger context of our class (other readings or class content), or even the broader field of urban sociology
• Explain why the argument or findings are important
• Stake out a position in terms of your own reaction (may be in agreement with author(s), disagreement, or a mix of both) and provide evidence to support your assessment
Papers should be 1-2 pages long, double-spaced, in 12 point font with 1 inch margins. It is always necessary to carefully proofread your written work before handing it in. If requested, you must get writing help from the Student Academic Success Center in Dutton Hall. Do not go over the page limit, we will not read it. Please do not include a bibliography but do cite your sources in the text using ASA format:
http://www(dot)asanet(dot)org/documents/teaching/pdfs/Quick_Tips_for_ASA_Style.pdf
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Topic: An Invitation of Ethnography
Ethnography is a qualitative approach used to describe the way of life of a given cultural setting (social research). It utilises personal experience; both of the society being studied and the ethnographers. Important studies may result from efforts to capture unspoken rules, the definition of the situation and the social categories used by people as a basis of their world. Ethnography is a slow process; the ethnographer seeks to go beyond what people say in interviews or find the relation between what people say in interviews and what they do. The researcher has to look a ‘common place’ through a ‘new eye’.Professor Robert Park enticed his students into performing urban ethnography. They were to understand dynamics such as the convergence of diverse communities, mushrooming of newer communities, passing on of traditions or norms and the effects of growth on the urban population. Looking the society through a ‘new eye’ may involve the ethnographer living with the grou...
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