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Fieldwork Research Method

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&NewLine;<&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">In fieldwork method data collection instruments differs from experiment and field survey method&period; There are three methods&comma; to collect&comma; record and analyze information in fieldwork research method&semi; which are as follow&comma; participant observation&comma; ethnography and case study&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Participant Observation<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"> It is amongst&comma; one of the method to collect&comma; record and analyze information regarding specific social issue in fieldwork research&period; Obtaining information through&comma; participant observation method&semi; requires&comma; participation of researcher in subject daily life&period; Now here&comma; readers might be having question in their minds&semi; how does researcher obtain data&comma; by participating in subject daily life activities&quest; Answer to the question is simple&comma; researcher observe and record the patterns of subject interactions and social life&period; Participant observation method&semi; is used by interactionist researcher&comma; for the reason that&comma; it helps them to determine&comma; the fundamental building block of society &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;social interactions”&period;&nbsp&semi; In 2000 a writer named&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Rodney Rothman” pretended to be an employ for two weeks in a New York firm called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;dot com”&period; The purpose behind his stunt&comma; was to analyze work environment of organization&semi; where white collar employees’ work&period; He worked there for two weeks and recorded all the interactions and behavior of the employees within organization and then wrote an article on his observations&comma; titled &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;my fake job” published in New York Times&period; However&comma; the method which he used in his field research&semi; for data collection was&comma; participant observation&period;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Ethnography Method<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify"> Ethnography method tends to observe that how a group of people&semi; who live together comprehend their social standing&comma; in society&period; Ethnographer areas of field research are observing&comma; the cultural norms of small community&comma; he could be interested in&comma; observing the culture norms of specific tribe&period; Every place&comma; which is confined by borders are used for different social purposes and have set their own standards&comma; of expected behavior are the research area of ethnographer&period; Ethnographers are interested in identifying cultural norms and values which influence human behavior in a particular society&comma; by the mean of observation&period; Researcher might visit a community&comma; as a guest&comma; to observe and record their ways of life and the roles which are expected of an individual in a community&period;&nbsp&semi; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Case study Method <&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">It is used by researcher&semi; for studying a particular social event&comma; scenario or individual&period; Information regarding the study can be obtained from the following methods&comma; past records&comma; documents&comma; observation&comma; participant observation and interview&period; As mentioned earlier&comma; case study method studies an individual&comma; researcher might be interested in conducting case study on juvenile delinquent&comma; and unique case may add a lot of knowledge to certain discipline&period; For example&semi; it may explore the patterns of learning criminal behavior by a juvenile&period; It may determine the different causes&comma; which lead juvenile towards committing crime&period; Such as growing up in bad neighborhood may lead him towards criminal behavior or may be compelled by family members or friends to commit crime&period; However&comma; many researcher criticize case study method&comma; for the reason that&comma; it does not provide generalize result because it focuses on specific event or individual&period;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi; 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