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Abraham R. Matamanda – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
Urban planning research usually requires researchers to undertake fieldwork. This fieldwork is frustrated or enabled by gatekeepers who can influence effective data collection. Traditionally, gatekeepers are perceived as monolithic, neutral, and static individuals, yet they are complex individuals with varying needs and expectations from the…
Descriptors: Politics, Urban Planning, Land Settlement, Social Science Research
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Rodríguez Menés, Jorge; Rovira, Marti – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
Correspondence studies are popular tools for assessing discrimination against minorities, for example, in the labor market. Typically, two fake "Curriculum Vitae" (CVs) are sent to multiple job openings. The CVs are equivalent except for a mark identifying the disadvantaged. While it is straightforward to establish discrimination from…
Descriptors: Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Minority Groups, Job Applicants, Research Methodology
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Eric W. Schoon – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
This article explores how researchers adapt to disruptions that cost them access to their field sites, advancing a uniquely sociological perspective on the dynamics of flexibility and adaptation in qualitative methods. Through interviews with 31 ethnographers whose access was preempted or eliminated, I find that adaptation varied systematically…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Researchers, Ethnography, Attitudes
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Friberg, Torbjörn – Ethnography and Education, 2018
This article is a response to the methodological problems I experienced during fieldwork. It follows that the article is an experiment of creating alternative possibilities for thinking about ethnocentrism as a phenomenon in transformation in a contemporary, innovative, higher educational setting. Throughout the article, I argue for the…
Descriptors: Ethnocentrism, Ethnography, Research Methodology, Research Problems
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Zschirnt, Eva – Research Ethics, 2019
Correspondence testing to research discrimination in the marketplace has become common and the use of internet applications has allowed researchers to send greater numbers of applications. While questions of research ethics always arise when planning a correspondence test, the issue receives relatively little attention in published correspondence…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Research Methodology, Ethics, Testing
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Katz, Jack – Sociological Methods & Research, 2015
There is unexamined potential for developing and testing rival causal explanations in the type of data that participant observation is best suited to create: descriptions of in situ social interaction crafted from the participants' perspectives. By intensively examining a single ethnography, we can see how multiple predictions can be derived from…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Observation, Field Studies, Notetaking
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Berbary, Lisbeth A. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2014
When embarking on ethnographic fieldwork, a researcher must carefully consider how to present oneself when entering the field. Presentations of self become particularly important when the culture under study maintains narrowly defined expectations for personal appearance and behavior. The more defined the expectations, the more important it is for…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Field Studies, Sororities, Educational Researchers
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Hamid, M. Obaidul – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2010
This contribution documents the author's lived experiences in his fieldwork for his PhD research in the field of English as a second/foreign language in a familiar social setting in Bangladesh. The account suggests that insider researchers can helpfully draw on their tacit knowledge of local social and cultural norms and values to understand their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, English (Second Language), Language Research
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Smith, Nick L. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2008
In contrast with nonindigenous workers, to what extent do unique ethical problems arise when indigenous field-workers participate in field studies? Three aspects of study design and operation are considered: data integrity issues, risk issues, and protection issues. Although many of the data quality issues that arise with the use of indigenous…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Confidentiality, Integrity, Ethics
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Davis, Stephen L. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2008
The conduct of fieldwork is an adventure, a voyage into the unknown. The author has several times had the opportunity to reflect on his fieldwork, which was most often conducted among remote Indigenous groups, initially in Australia and then wider afield in Thailand, the Philippines, and Africa. He is struck by the significant amount of time,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Researchers, Field Experience Programs
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Munford, Robyn; Sanders, Jackie; Mirfin-Veitch, Brigit; Conder, Jenny – Disability & Society, 2008
This paper examines the development of fieldwork methodology in a study that investigated the parenting experiences and parent support needs of a group of parents with an intellectual disability. It considers the ways in which the original planning for the project changed as the fieldwork unfolded, requiring adaptations to our methodological…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Child Rearing, Parents with Disabilities, Field Studies
Daillak, Richard H.; Alkin, Marvin C. – 1981
Qualitative research methodologies employed by the Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) Evaluation Use Project over the last six years are reviewed. The report is neither a paean to qualitative methods nor an attack upon them. It represents a self-examination by CSE of its attempts to apply qualitative techniques to an important, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Field Studies, Interviews, Research Methodology
Kawulich, Barbara B. – 2001
This paper presents some insights about the rigors of ethnographic fieldwork gained in the conduct of an ethnographic study of the Muscogee people of Oklahoma (called "Creek" by European settlers). The difficulties and issues discussed include: (1) gaining entry; (2) selection of key informants; (3) ways informants tested the investigator; (4)…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Experience, Field Studies, Qualitative Research
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Foster, Michele – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1996
Questions whether preparation was adequate for the field research of squatter community schools and personal ethics and bias in the study. Also examines issues related to which researchers and scholars will gain access to South Africa to provide support and assistance and undertake research now that apartheid has ended. (MMU)
Descriptors: Community Schools, Ethics, Experimenter Characteristics, Field Studies
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Constas, Mark A.; Colyn, Wendy – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1996
A response to criticisms on preparedness for the field study of squatter community schools in South Africa is presented. Included in the discussion are the ethical stance, the equity of inclusion to conduct research in South Africa, and departure from the field. (MMU)
Descriptors: Community Schools, Ethics, Experimenter Characteristics, Field Studies
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