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Cultural Theories and Ethnography

As part of your concept analysis, you are going to use the Hybrid Methodology to explore a concept in the real world. Part of your group work is to develop a plan to make a health change in the community setting. Both experiences, as well as many others in this course, are based on cultural and ethnographic principles. To begin to gain a greater understanding of culture and ethnography, the following activity will allow you to surf the net for an "outside" view of culture and ethnography. You have read chapter 8 in Friedman's Family Nursing: Research, Theory, and Practice text. This chapter will serve as the basis of cultural theories for the class; later we will expand your view of culture in later modules.

For now, review Friedman's chapter 8 and surf the following Internet sites to answer the following questions in the textboxes below.

 

Do some searching on Cultures and Transcultural Nursing on the Internet. Check out these sites:

http://www.tcns.org  Transcultural Nursing Society – Marilyn Leininger’s society site

http://www.culturediversity.org/ for many other interesting cultural sites

http://www.diversityrx.org/HTML/DIVRX.htm where language and culture affect quality health care, including legal issues and policies.  

http://www.culturediversity.org/basic.htm

 

Do some searching on Ethnography from these sites: 

Definition of Ethnography
Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods Graue, M.E. (in press) Definition of ethnography. In C.A. Grant & G. LadsonBillings (Eds.), Dictionary of multicultural education. New York: The Oryx Press For some, the term ethnography is loosely  
labweb.education.wisc.edu

A Working Definition
A Definition Of Ethnography One of the better definitions I found for ethnography can be found at http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/glossary/ethnography.html. Basically an outline of the definition includes the following: 1.  
wrt-jeneault.syr.edu

Definition and Epistemology
Ethnography The nature of a particular mediation [fieldwork encounter] will depend on the nature of the traditions that are in contact during fieldwork. The received view's concept of "objectivity" becomes obsolete. Ethnography no longer claims to  
www.npi.ucla.edu

Urban Ethnography of Latino Street Gangs
Learn about this urban ethnography project by browsing sections about its methodology and its definitions. Includes a history of street gangs.  
www.csun.edu

Univ. of Mich. - CEEL
Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life focuses on issues surrounding family life in modern America.  
www.ethno.isr.umich.edu

ethnography
The American Anthropological Association's Anthropology Resources on the Internet Web Page is one of many links to this source of information. Computer Programs Used in Ethnography Useful Freeware and Free Web Resources CU-SeeMe (commercial  
www.stanford.edu

Surviving Ethnography: Coping with Isolation, Violence and Anger
Surviving Ethnography: Coping with Isolation, Violence and Anger 1 by Jennifer Harris * The Qualitative Report, Volume 3, Number 1, March, 1997 (http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR3-1/harris.html) Abstract This article concentrates upon the intensities  
www.nova.edu

 

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1. In the box below, summarize your understanding of what cultural theories are,  based on chapter 8 in Friedman's family text and the cultural and transcultural internet sites you visited. Cite at least one summary from Friedman's text and one summary from a web site.(1/2%)

2. In the box below, summarize your understanding of what ethnography is based on the internet sites you visited. Cite and summarize at least two web sites.(1/2%)



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