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51 relations: American Anthropological Association, American Sociological Association, Anthropology, Biculturalism, Bronisław Malinowski, Chicago school (sociology), Clifford Geertz, Clinical ethnography, Communication studies, Creative participation, Cultural anthropology, Data collection, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Educational psychology, Edward H. Spicer, Epistemology, Ethnobotany, Ethnography, Ethnology, Field research, Focus group, Formal system, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Franz Boas, Grenville Goodwin, Grounded theory, Human geography, Life history (sociology), Margaret Mead, Member check, Narrative inquiry, Naturalistic observation, Observation, Observer-expectancy effect, Participation (decision making), Participatory action research, Person-centered ethnography, Primary source, Qualitative research, Quantitative research, Reflexivity (social theory), Social psychology, Sociology, Subculture, Taboo, Thematic analysis, Triangulation, Unobtrusive research, Visual anthropology, Western Apache people, ..., Zuni. Expand index (1 more) »
American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology.
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American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association (ASA), founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society, is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology.
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Anthropology
Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.
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Biculturalism
Biculturalism in sociology describes the co-existence, to varying degrees, of two originally distinct cultures.
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Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist, often considered one of the most important 20th-century anthropologists.
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Chicago school (sociology)
In sociology and later criminology, the Chicago school (sometimes described as the ecological school) was the first major body of works emerging during the 1920s and 1930s specializing in urban sociology, and the research into the urban environment by combining theory and ethnographic fieldwork in Chicago, now applied elsewhere.
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Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
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Clinical ethnography
Clinical ethnography is a term first used by Gilbert Herdt and Robert Stoller in a series of papers in the 1980s.
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Communication studies
Communication studies or communication sciences is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication.
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Creative participation
Creative Participation is a term used in social sciences to describe the position of the observer towards the observed.
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Cultural anthropology
Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans.
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Data collection
Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information on targeted variables in an established systematic fashion, which then enables one to answer relevant questions and evaluate outcomes.
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E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, FBA (21 September 1902 – 11 September 1973), known as E. E. Evans-Pritchard, was an English anthropologist who was instrumental in the development of social anthropology.
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Educational psychology
Educational psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning.
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Edward H. Spicer
Edward Holland "Ned" Spicer (1906–1983) was an American anthropologist who specialized in studying American Indian tribes of the American Southwest as a participant-observer.
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Epistemology
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.
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Ethnobotany
Ethnobotany is the study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people.
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Ethnography
Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.
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Ethnology
Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning "nation") is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationship between them (cf. cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).
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Field research
Field research or fieldwork is the collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting.
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Focus group
A focus group is a small, but demographically diverse group of people and whose reactions are studied especially in market research or political analysis in guided or open discussions about a new product or something else to determine the reactions that can be expected from a larger population.
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Formal system
A formal system is the name of a logic system usually defined in the mathematical way.
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Frank Hamilton Cushing
Frank Hamilton Cushing (July 22, 1857 in North East Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania – April 10, 1900 in Washington DC) was an American anthropologist and ethnologist.
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Franz Boas
Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".
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Grenville Goodwin
Grenville W. "Gren" Goodwin (c. 1898 – 27 August 1951) was Mayor of Ottawa for several months in 1951.
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Grounded theory
Grounded theory (GT) is a systematic methodology in the social sciences involving the construction of theory through methodic gathering and analysis of data.
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Human geography
Human geography is the branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place.
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Life history (sociology)
The method was first used when interviewing indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Member check
In qualitative research, a member check, also known as informant feedback or respondent validation, is a technique used by researchers to help improve the accuracy, credibility, validity, and transferability (also known as applicability, internal validity, or fittingness) of a study.
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Narrative inquiry
Narrative inquiry or narrative analysis emerged as a discipline from within the broader field of qualitative research in the early 20th century.
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Naturalistic observation
Naturalistic observation is, in contrast to analog observation, a research tool in which a subject is observed in its natural habitat without any manipulation by the observer.
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Observation
Observation is the active acquisition of information from a primary source.
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Observer-expectancy effect
The observer-expectancy effect (also called the experimenter-expectancy effect, expectancy bias, observer effect, or experimenter effect) is a form of reactivity in which a researcher's cognitive bias causes them to subconsciously influence the participants of an experiment.
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Participation (decision making)
Participation in social science refers to different mechanisms for the public to express opinions – and ideally exert influence – regarding political, economic, management or other social decisions.
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Participatory action research
Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to research in communities that emphasizes participation and action.
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Person-centered ethnography
Person-centered ethnography is an approach within psychological anthropology that draws on techniques and theories from psychiatry and psychoanalysis to understand how individuals relate to and interact with their sociocultural context.
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Primary source
In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary source (also called original source or evidence) is an artifact, document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study.
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Qualitative research
Qualitative research is a scientific method of observation to gather non-numerical data.
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Quantitative research
In natural sciences and social sciences, quantitative research is the systematic empirical investigation of observable phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques.
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Reflexivity (social theory)
In epistemology, and more specifically, the sociology of knowledge, reflexivity refers to circular relationships between cause and effect, especially as embedded in human belief structures.
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Social psychology
Social psychology is the study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.
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Subculture
A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.
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Taboo
In any given society, a taboo is an implicit prohibition or strong discouragement against something (usually against an utterance or behavior) based on a cultural feeling that it is either too repulsive or dangerous, or, perhaps, too sacred for ordinary people.
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Thematic analysis
Thematic analysis is one of the most common forms of analysis in qualitative research.
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Triangulation
In trigonometry and geometry, triangulation is the process of determining the location of a point by forming triangles to it from known points.
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Unobtrusive research
Unobtrusive research (or unobtrusive measures) is a method of data collection used primarily in the social sciences.
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Visual anthropology
Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media.
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Western Apache people
The Western Apache live primarily in east central Arizona, in the United States.
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Zuni
The Zuni (A:shiwi; formerly spelled Zuñi) are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley.
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