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Ethnographic Analysis: The Five Mommy Support Groups

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The study has an ethnographic approach in order to have a more personal perspective on the topic and focus less on numbers and statistics. The research data is collected through a series of interviews and participant observation. The partakers for the project were randomly selected through a self-selection sampling process. The participants were selected from UP at UGA, which is a student organization that provides resources or referrals to mom-students, and giving moms emotional support and friendship. I was unable to select moms outside of this organization due to the time limit of this project. I contacted the president of UP at UGA, Brenna about my project and she emailed all the moms that attend UP at UGA. Then she emailed me back the five moms’ contact information that were interested in participating in the study. The five student moms did not have a significant cultural background from each other or did not really mention their cultural …show more content…

I wanted to gain insight on what a mommy support group consist of and on the interactions between moms. The original proposal stated that I would complete the participant observation first before my interviews since it might allow the moms to open to me more during the interview. However, the first mommy support group I attempted to go to was canceled because none of the mothers was able to attend the meeting. Following that, I tried to attend their next meeting on 13 November 2016 but that was canceled because the masseuse had to call in sick. Consequently, I was unable to meet the mothers before the interviews. Furthermore, since it was a week before Thanksgiving Break and the end of the semester, the organization did not have any more mommy support group planned. Therefore, I had to deviate from my original plan. Instead of attending one of UP at UGA’s meeting, I participated in a meeting held by Athens Mothers’

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