What Do EFS Argue About Objectivity? What Is The Goal Of Ethnographic Participation Case Study

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1. What do EFS argue about “objectivity”? What is the goal of “ethnographic participation? Filed researchers should be in the center of the lives of those are being studied in order to be able to observe and understand them better. “The ethnographer seeks deeper immersion in others worlds in order to grasp what they experience as meaningful and important” (EFS 2) to do that researcher must be at the scene and live the same experience from the first hand and observe at the same time. Each study may require different living conditions and different sills to be able to live those conditions and ethnographers should learn to be associate of that particular group that will be studied and learn the necessary skills to be involved at the activities. “In learning about others through active participation in their lives and activities, the field worker cannot and should not attempt to be fly on the wall” (EFS 3). That means fieldworkers should be known as researcher at the scene that they are working. EFS argue that field researchers cannot be detached they should be at the scene and be engaged. EFS argues that field workers should be unbiased and not be prejudiced. Field …show more content…

According to Esterberg interpretive approaches in social research are closely related to a theoretical tradition called symbolic interactionism which rests on three premises. First is that humans act toward things based on the meaning s those things have for them. Second is that meanings of things arise out of social interaction and the thirds is that meanings are created. Interpretive tradition assumes that researchers need to begin by examining the empirical world which means immersing themselves in the word inhabited by those they wish to study (16) bunt unlike naturalistic perspective they don’t go to inside the worlds of their

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