2nd Partial exam review

1. A strategy that is characterized by attempting to bring out the meaning of the observed behaviors and activities, because local residents are all too familiar with them to perceive them. When this perspective is used, you should try to use an objective and comprehensive point of view in the study of cultures.

• etic

• emic

• emic and etic

• neither

cultural anthropologists doing ethnography while making use of this TECHNIQUE focus on researching a specific question; they collect data just on that question, e.g., the effects of modernization on social organization, while they are in the field.

• interview

• key informants

• Problem-oriented ethnography

• genealogical method

long-term study of a community, region, society, culture, or other unit, usually based on repeat visits

• team research

• longitudinal resaerch

• genealogical method

• case study

The systematization of what is observed is carried out in a __________ where you can record in detail all the impressions of what is observed (including odors or mental or graphic images). It is recommended to empty it in set periods of time (weekly or monthly) in registers that are more formal,

• field notes

• fieldwork

• field diary

• field report

When doing ethnography, in the presentation of the results, you can recognize two moments:

• descriptive and conclusion

• analysis and conclusion

• analysis and interpretive

• descriptive and interpretive

_______ nowadays has adopted a more integral vision, consolidated as an integral study, incorporating the existing functional interrelationships between the social institutions and the relationships of these institutions with the basic human needs.

• case study

• oral history

• participative action research

• ethnography

From this type of interview it is easy to gather statistical data:

• a normal interview

• conversation

• none

• semistructured interview (guide)

A vertical communication between the researcher and the person being investigated, is a characteristic of

• qualitative research method

• quantitative resravh method

• both

• neither

This type of research is often used in longitudinal research with new students and other researchers and is often also multigenerational. An example is a research done by a Cultural Anthropologist, a Linguist, and a Geologist.

• cross sectional research

• team research

• participative action resarch

• problem-oriented ethnography

The main criticism of it is whether its results are complete.

• quantitative research

• qualitative research

• both

• neither