What are the dangers of a researcher becoming invisible in a setting?
What will be an ideal response?
1. Intentional Misidentification: When researchers pretend to be a natural inhabitant of a group, the researcher's behavior can be assumed as real and true, not simply an act to obtain research.
2. Accidental Misidentification: When researchers pose as members of a group, outsiders can assume they belong to the group. This can be dangerous if an ethnographer is studying a dangerous deviant group such as a gang.
3. Learning more than you want to know: Researchers can become privy to information that a crime or dangerous event is planned as an invisible insider of a group. This can present an ethical problem, and a legal problem if the researcher is not in receipt of a federal Certificate of Confidentiality. The researcher can undergo a moral dilemma of knowing a crime will be committed and doing nothing to prevent it.
4. Working without a Certificate of Confidentiality: A researcher who studies a group that is breaking the law can be forced to bear witness upon or identify subjects in court without a Certificate of Confidentiality. The researcher could be forced to disclose identifying information and notes on a subject.
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Regarding widowhood and social supports,:
A) more than 20 percent report that they don't have strong social supports . B) women are more likely than men to use social supports for coping. C) friendships made during the marital relationship are important sources of support during widowhood. D) Latina and Asian American widows are less likely to have active support systems than whites.
What is the dependent variable in the study?
A) whether or not discrimination against women plumbers occurred B) the amount charged by the plumber C) whether the plumber is union or nonunion D) whether a homeowner was male or female
Unlike ethnohistorians, ethnographers __________.
A) describe a given society based on their own fieldwork B) study societies with writing systems C) compare societies cross-culturally D) are interested in “primitive” peoples