Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING 153 The various uses or meanings of a word do not interlock precisely like pieces of a jigsaw puz ...

154 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA the important subcultures of American English speakers are ones defined by class, race, gender ...

ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING 155 Direct questions that ask explicitly what the interviewee understands the meaning of term “x ...

156 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA Interviewer: Why not? [judgment question] Juan de la Cruz: With freedom of speech, you should ...

ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING 157 Juan de la Cruz: Just look at the differences between the rich and the poor, at the treatment ...

158 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA Interviewer: Let me ask you another question. What does demokrasya mean to you? [scripted dire ...

ORDINARY LANGUAGE INTERVIEWING 159 people listed on the voter registry. With the help of two interviewers I trained, it took 4 m ...

160 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA though in arriving at that conclusion they may well need to figure out what the Nazis meant by ...

SEEING WITH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY 161 161 CHAPTER 8 SEEING WITH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY Explorations Beneath the Surfa ...

162 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA ❖❖❖ I remember my immigrant grandparents’ one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx. It was a long ti ...

SEEING WITH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY 163 others. Obviously, no one could hear my thoughts, but you couldn’t have convinced me ...

164 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA PARTICIPANT-OBSERVATION: WE ALL DO IT, BUT SOME OF US TAKE NOTES AND LOOK FOR PATTERNS Someone ...

SEEING WITH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY 165 inform what they are doing and assess their validity. Uninformed assumptions can be ...

166 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA underlying rationale of its patterning. With such an interpretive approach it is harder to mak ...

SEEING WITH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY 167 Defining the appropriate use and allocation of rooms in a home is no different. Sinc ...

168 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA Caroline Tauxe emerged from her ethnographic fieldwork in Mercer County, North Dakota, with so ...

SEEING WITH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY 169 One example of this miscommunication clearly shows how social relations of dominance ...

170 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA that people’s attitudes toward self-disclosure are universal and identical to those of U.S. su ...

SEEING WITH AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SENSIBILITY 171 players, things might have turned out differently—for the better. As these studies s ...

172 ACCESSING AND GENERATING DATA all, mutual respect as they came to appreciate their different discourse and cultural styles, ...