Participant Observation in Ethnography

Social study has a very wide scope of objects and subjects to be studied. That is why there are so many specific sciences that are used to explain certain field of works. For example, we cans se that from one of the social study namely anthropology, we can find four branches of studies.

One of them is the ethnography that focuses on understanding chosen culture. The methods used by ethnographers can be done by living within a certain culture up to a year or even much longer.

Besides observing their culture, the ethnographers will also take role in the society by applying participant observation

method. The method can show the most possibility of motivations within a culture.

 

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