{"id":377,"date":"2016-07-18T19:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T09:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/?page_id=377"},"modified":"2016-07-20T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T09:56:03","slug":"what-are-participant-observations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/data\/thick-descriptions\/what-are-participant-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Participant Observations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To conduct a <strong>Participant Observation<\/strong>, the researcher becomes a part of the group s\/he is\u00a0examining and observes &#8220;from a member&#8217;s perspective&#8221; (<span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Flick, U 2009, &lt;em&gt;An introduction to qualitative research&lt;\/em&gt;, 4th ed, London: SAGE Publications. Print.\">Flick 2009, p.226<\/span>).\u00a0In doing so, s\/he risks &#8220;[t]o lose this critical external perspective and to unquestioningly adopt the viewpoints shared in the field&#8221; (<span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Flick, U 2009, &lt;em&gt;An introduction to qualitative research&lt;\/em&gt;, 4th ed, London: SAGE Publications. Print.\">Flick 2009, p.229<\/span>). This can influence the\u00a0data because the researcher has to maintain a certain professional distance in order to obtain knowledge (<span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Flick, U 2009, &lt;em&gt;An introduction to qualitative research&lt;\/em&gt;, 4th ed, London: SAGE Publications. Print.\">Flick 2009, p.229<\/span>). Otherwise, remarkable and noteworthy aspects\u00a0might become\u00a0taken for granted so that they no longer\u00a0capture the researchers attention. This process is knows as\u00a0<strong>&#8220;going native&#8221;<\/strong> (<span class=\"tooltips \" style=\"\" title=\"Flick, U 2009, &lt;em&gt;An introduction to qualitative research&lt;\/em&gt;, 4th ed, London: SAGE Publications. Print.\">Flick 2009, p.229<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>The information gained from Participant Observations can be put into writing and, thus, made accessible for analysis, in the form of <strong>Thick Descriptions<\/strong>. To learn more about this method, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/data\/thick-descriptions\/what-are-thick-descriptions\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For information on\u00a0how\u00a0I used Participant Observation and Thick Description <strong>in\u00a0this specific\u00a0research<\/strong>,\u00a0please click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/data\/thick-descriptions\/how-did-i-use-participant-observation-and-thick-descriptions\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To conduct a Participant Observation, the researcher becomes a part of the group s\/he is\u00a0examining and observes &#8220;from a member&#8217;s perspective&#8221; ().\u00a0In doing so, s\/he risks &#8220;[t]o lose this critical external perspective and to unquestioningly adopt the viewpoints shared in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/data\/thick-descriptions\/what-are-participant-observations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2625,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-377","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377\/revisions\/687"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-bremen.de\/aboriginalstudiesclasses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}