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Participant Observation Michael, Anna, Stacey, Laurisa, April
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Participant Observation is kind of like being ….
Mixed with a little of this …
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Example of interpretation vs. observation
Example of observation At first the client sat very stiffly on the chair next to the receptionist's desk. She (client) picked up a magazine and let the pages flutter through her fingers very quickly without really looking at any of the pages. She then set the magazine down, looked at her watch, tugged at her skirt, and picked up the magazine again. This time she didn't look at the magazine. She set it back down, took out a cigarette, and began smoking. She would watch the receptionist out of the corner of her eye, and then look back down at the magazine, and back up at the two or three other people waiting in the room. Her eyes moved from the people to the magazine to the cigarette to the people to the magazine in rapid succession. She avoided eye contact with anyone in the room. When her name was finally called by the receptionist, she jumped up like she was startled.
Ethics to consider confidentiality, consent, cultural context, disclosure
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Participant Observation

  • 1. Participant Observation Michael, Anna, Stacey, Laurisa, April
  • 2.
  • 3. Participant Observation is kind of like being ….
  • 4. Mixed with a little of this …
  • 5.
  • 6.
  • 7.
  • 8. Example of interpretation vs. observation
  • 9. Example of observation At first the client sat very stiffly on the chair next to the receptionist's desk. She (client) picked up a magazine and let the pages flutter through her fingers very quickly without really looking at any of the pages. She then set the magazine down, looked at her watch, tugged at her skirt, and picked up the magazine again. This time she didn't look at the magazine. She set it back down, took out a cigarette, and began smoking. She would watch the receptionist out of the corner of her eye, and then look back down at the magazine, and back up at the two or three other people waiting in the room. Her eyes moved from the people to the magazine to the cigarette to the people to the magazine in rapid succession. She avoided eye contact with anyone in the room. When her name was finally called by the receptionist, she jumped up like she was startled.
  • 10. Ethics to consider confidentiality, consent, cultural context, disclosure
  • 11.
  • 12.

Editor's Notes

  1. Which one is not like the others?