What to do with resulting data?
- Find themes/patterns that can be used again
- There are often blinders on these kinds of studies, because they are often to try to understand rather than to change or "fix" (using research to study research)
- Things are always changing anyways, so... by the time we finish a study, that culture is already in the past. (How do you ever get progress?)
- Can you create something like what you study? (Carl Marx, Rosa Parks, Ghandi)
- There is something divine within us that allows us to innovate.
- What if the case study is the "outlier"?
- Describe the root meanings
- Thick description: has enough contextual data to defend the bias/conclusion
- Let go of the reins and don't think that you can tell everybody what they will do, because that's not really how it's going to go.
- Case Study: give you the experience that you can't have by yourself. (Like what it's like to give birth, etc.) THIS requires that people who are writing it understand it from a personal perspective, so they can write it in a way that is applicable to people; something others can understand.
- Write a documentary! :)
- An ethnography can be something from middle-class America, even if you are middle-class America. Some of the most interesting ethnographies came from people who are native to that culture.
Writing Style
- There is no real stance, just write in the voice that you usually use.
- Don't pretend to be third person omniscient if you're not.
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