LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY

ETHNOGRAPHY

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

which of the following is one of the major challenge of performing good ethnographic research?

A	finding people to study using this method
B	getting paid to study a culture for a whole year
C	none of these answers are correct
D	obtaining the level of understanding and awareness about the people

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Ethnographers enhance the external reliability of their data by recognizing and handling five major problems: researcher status position, informant choices, social situations and conditions, analytic constructs and premises, and methods of data collection and analysis.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ethnographic field work can face numerous practical challenges including local hostility, informant dishonesty, and scholarly bias.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ethnographic research has several disadvantages to consider as well. Ethnography is time consuming and requires a well-trained researcher. It takes time to build trust with informants in order to facilitate full and honest discourse. Short-term studies are at a particular disadvantage in this regard.

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