ch. 12 key terms
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- complex societies
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nations;
large and populous, with social stratification and central governments - cultural consultants
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subjects in ethnographic research;
people the ethnographer gets to know in the field, who teach him or her about their culture - emic
- the res. strategy that focuses on LOCAL EXPLANATIONS AND CRITERIA OF SIGNIFICANCE
- etic
- res. strategy emphasizing THE ETHNOGRAPHER'S EXPLANATIONS, CATEGORIES, AND CRITERIA OF SIGNIFICANCE
- genealogical method
- procedures by which ethnographers discover and record connections of kinship, descent, and marriage, using diagrams and symbols
- interview schedule
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ethnographic tool for structuring a formal interview.
prepared form (usually printed or mimeographed) th/guides intvws w/households or indiv.s being compared systematically.
contrasts w/questionnaire b/c the researcher has personal contact w/local ppl and records their answers - key cultural consultant
- person who is an expert on a particular aspect of local life
- life history
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of a key consultant or narrator;
provides personal cultural portrait of existence or change in a culture - longitudinal research
- long-term study of a community, region, society, culture, or other unit, usu. based on repeated visits
- questionnaire
- form (usu. printed) used by sociologists to obtain comparable info. from respondents. often mailed to and filled in by research subjects rather than by the resercher (as is the case with an interview schedule)
- random sample
- sample in which all memb.s of the pop. have an equal statistical chance of being included
- sample
- a smaller study grp. chosen to represent a larger pop.
- survey research
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characteristic res. procedure among social scientists otr than anthropologists. studies society thru:
--sampling
--statistical analysis
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--impersonal data collection