What is meant by this statement? “Although the role of covert participant lessens some of the reactive effects encountered by the complete observer, covert participants can confront other problems.”
What will be an ideal response?
• Covert participants cannot openly take notes or use any obvious recording devices. They must write up notes based solely on memory and must do so at times when it is natural for them to be away from group members.
• Covert participants cannot ask questions that will arouse suspicion. Thus they often have trouble clarifying the meaning of other participants’ attitudes or actions.
• The role of covert participation is difficult to play successfully. Covert participants will not know how regular participants act in every situation in which the researchers find themselves. Suspicion that researchers are not “one of us” may then have reactive effects, obviating the value of complete participation (Erikson, 1967).
• Covert participants must keep up the act at all times while in the setting under study. Researchers may experience enormous psychological strain, particularly in situations where they are expected to choose sides in intragroup conflict or to participate in criminal or other acts. Of course, some covert observers may become so wrapped up in their role that they adopt not just the mannerisms but also the perspectives and goals of the regular participants—they “go native.” At this point, they abandon research goals and cease to critically evaluate their observations.
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A. A reliable informant told FBI agents that a known white supremacist terrorist suspect had secreted an ammonium nitrate bomb in his house B. Officers see a fist fight through the screen door of a house in which a person hit in the face spit blood into a sink C. Officers respond to a report that a gunshot was fired through the floor of an apartment D. Firefighters respond to a fire alarm
_________arethefastest growing groupintheU.S. prison population.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Fire inspections do not required warrants, because they are considered ______.
A. exigent searches B. emergency searches C. regulatory searches D. suspicionless searches
Which of the following best summarizes the idea behind "Broken Windows"?
A. If police tend to minor infractions, major crime will go down B. Dynamic entry through windows is a better tactic than going through doors C. There comes a point where there are too many broken windows to be able to save a neighborhood from crime D. Citizens whose homes have been vandalized are much more likely to participate in Neighborhood Watch E. All of the above