Larry is being interviewed here by John Lewis, our participant-observer among adolescents in South Central Harlem. From Wordnik.com. [Academic Ignorance and Black Intelligence] Reference
I probably went further in trying to be a participant-observer in this project than on any other previous occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Hearts of Strangers] Reference
I have a different kind of research program in mind than the participant-observer ethnographic study mentioned here. From Wordnik.com. [What constitutes 'ethical participant observation' in MMOG ethnography?] Reference
I think you can question whether being an aloof participant-observer in the anthropological sense is completely ethical. From Wordnik.com. [What constitutes 'ethical participant observation' in MMOG ethnography?] Reference
During 1932 – 1934 she lived in the small town of Indianola, Mississippi, carrying out one of the earliest participant-observer community studies in the Deep South. From Wordnik.com. [Hortense Powdermaker.] Reference
A skeptical take on pro-China boosterism, gained through the same participant-observer techniques the author brought to his Celebration Chronicles, about Disney's Edenic planned community. From Wordnik.com. [Cover to Cover] Reference
Moreover, Gilchrist can be said to embody the mode of picturing the Orient not as immediately accessible but as something into which one could submerge: the shift is from voyeur-observer to participant-observer. From Wordnik.com. [A Teleology of Letters; or, From a] Reference
She did 6 years of participant-observer fieldwork at various US climate modeling centers, including her base at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., as well as 100 semi-structured interviews with atmospheric scientists. From Wordnik.com. [SPM released « Climate Audit] Reference
An earlier generation of "naive" participant-observer books -- such as the late George Plimpton's football saga "Paper Lion" (1966) and the late John Jerome's quest to restore an old pickup in "Truck" (1977) -- dealt with ordinary men who bit off more than they could chew. From Wordnik.com. [The New Soft-Bitten Journalists] Reference
In her memoir, aptly entitled Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist (1968), Hortense Powdermaker explored the balance of involvement and detachment necessary for participant-observer fieldwork in cultural anthropology, stressing the ability to “step in and out of society.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hortense Powdermaker.] Reference
It is all very ethnographic on my part though, workin 'the participant-observer angle. From Wordnik.com. [digital b] Reference
I'm glad you were able to be a participant-observer, AK, but were not hurt in any way. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
Ruch opens up the discussion about for-profit higher education from the perspective of a participant-observer. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
My main interest is the ethological and ethnographic analysis of human courtship behavior, based on participant-observer ethnographic observations in a variety of settings. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
There were several weeks of 'Ethnographic Method', in which there was no introduction to real participant-observer methods or anything really related to ethnographic method. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Apart from the exciting opportunity to reach a wider audience, I also decided to submit a poem as a kind of participant-observer in my ongoing informal research into alternative modes of publishing. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Peake] Reference
Thus, he observes, "the desperate African struggle for survival is bowdlerized beyond recognition, and at times the participant-observer has the feeling of being caught between a Shakespearian tragedy and a hiccupping computer.". From Wordnik.com. [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Reference
The review by Nathan Gerrard, then-sociology chairman at Morris Harvey College, said Peeks wrote about the civil rights movement "with the vigor of the participant-observer, the eye of the talented journalist, and the judiciousness of the professional historian.". From Wordnik.com. [The Charleston Gazette -] Reference
Embracing the role of participant-observer wholeheartedly, the director along with some friends takes audiences into the loading docks and Dumpsters of some well - known food chains in Los Angeles to see what food they toss - and ask why - when hunger is such an issue. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Harold Henderson reflects on how Pattillo's participant-observer study of Chicago's North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood reveals a tangled network of competing interests, even within the community itself, that if left unresolved make any predictions as to the future of the neighborhood and its inhabitants uncertain at best. From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog] Reference
What is needed next is a good analytical account of how French sociology differs from American sociology in terms of (a) the topic areas that are identified as most important for investigation, (b) the methods that are regarded as most reliable and scientifically justified (statistical, qualitative, comparative, participant-observer, ...); and (c) the assumptions that exist about what form sociological knowledge should take (deductive theories, narratives of particular social processes, statistical tables, ...). From Wordnik.com. [French sociology as a distinctive tradition] Reference
It’s hard to imagine a more thorough program of interviews and participant-observer work in a field like this. From Wordnik.com. [SPM released « Climate Audit] Reference
But I figured it’d be a good participant-observer sociological research opportunity this is how I treated most potential social interactions, so I’d said yes when he asked me. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Discomfort / “P.S., I forgive you for stealing my underwear…”] Reference
My participant-observer presence at Step One Table ups that count by 30 points.). From Wordnik.com. [PrideSource - front] Reference
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