Cultural Interview : Cultural Informant Interview

is part of a third year Media Studies Course, MDIA 310 Cultural Identity and the Media at Victoria University of Wellington and is coordinated by Joost de Bruin, a Senior Lecturer at this university, each student in the class has undertaken the same research process. We were required to conduct two interviews with individuals we had never met before using a topic list provided to us by Dr. de Bruin, the aim, was not to test the informants use of online news, but rather provide them with an opportunity

Evidence Brief: Occupational Therapy in Underserved Areas Cultural differences: The experience of establishing an occupational therapy service in a developing community Bourke-Taylor, H., & Hudson, D. (2005). Cultural differences: The experience of establishing an occupational therapy service in a developing community. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 52(3), 188-198. Why research this topic? The expansion of occupational therapy (OT) is becoming international in areas where OT services were

women are sex workers, drug usage etc.(Sterk 2000:) Ethnography is immersive research honed on a single culture.Ethnographers offer us information about cultures and what they do. Utilizing a descriptive approach, an ethnographer is inside of a cultural environment. Their goal pushes the mind to think beyond why a culture may engage in certain rituals. An ethnographer questions the vast intricacies of the culture as a whole. Detailed questions fuel the process for the ethnologist, What is the meaning

qualitative study through a bodily-centred (Crossley, 1995) ethnography at professional ballet companies, as well as with independent professional ballet dancers in London. Ethnography offers the opportunity to understand cultural differences and “reveals what people think and show us the cultural meanings they use daily” (Spradley, 1980, p.vii).The ethnographer's goal is to go beyond a cognitive, behavioural and representational apprehension of the research field (Grau, 2011; Hanna, 2014). As soon as different

background, I found it quite offensive. It felt as though it was in a slight way, mockery.” (Informant 4) This statement was made during my interview with informant three. This particular occurrence shows the defamatory nature when entering an unfamiliar nation and becoming a part of a new community. We see that individuals are trying to adjust within a new environment whilst still maintaining

INTRODUCTION The United World College USA is an international high school in New Mexico. There are currently 230 students in the community, representing 88 different countries in two different classes. In the beginning of the year, there is usually a significant distance between the two classes, since one of them have already spent one year at the school when the new class arrives. The “Howling Ritual” is a student-run tradition, that takes place on the night of the first full moon of every school

Cultural Anthropology and Ethnographic Fieldwork James P. Spradley (1979) described the insider approach to understanding culture as "a quiet revolution" among the social sciences (p. iii). Cultural anthropologists, however, have long emphasized the importance of the ethnographic method, an approach to understanding a different culture through participation, observation, the use of key informants, and interviews. Cultural anthropologists have employed the ethnographic method in an attempt to

Berger’s approaches towards the interview process a few major differences jumped out at me; although they both cover a similar topic each author approaches the process with a unique angle. Cribb focuses on the basic overlay of the interview, presenting the layout of how an interview transpires from the initial icebreaker to asking the interviewee if there is anything they would like to cover. This process centers around how the interviewee is feeling, the flow of the interview depends on how you approach

government, This project proposes that terrorist tactics become more present when no other form of expression is available to societies with less economic and social mobility. Intellectual Merit This study utilizes methods and theory from socio-cultural anthropology and applicable historical research to further understand the unique situation of the Uyghur people. With additional

the lenses of cultural influences and how it is expected to given at birth. Through this given identity we are expected to think, speak, and behave in a certain way that fits the mold of societal norms. This paper aims to explain how gender perform gender roles according these cultural values. I intend to analyze the process in which individuals learned and internalized their respective gender identities, through their cultural background. I will be conducting a set of interviews with the intention