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REBECCA G. ADAMS

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         Ethnographic Studies
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      5. Friendship Vocabulary
      6. Introductory Writing Clinic
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   1. Professor of Sociology
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GUIDELINES FOR READING ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES

Please use the following guidelines to help you take notes as you read your assigned book excerpt. You may work with the other students who signed up for the same book to develop your notes, but you must read the entire excerpt. These notes will be useful for your in-class group presentation, your MOO group presentation, and when you answer a required question on this topic on the final.

As a group, you are responsible for making sure that at least one of your members is prepared to cover each of these topics as part of your two presentations. Your group must submit, in writing and signed by all members, a list of what tasks each member completed to prepare and deliver your group's presentations and an estimate of what percentage of the total work involved each member did. Individual grades will be based on the overall quality of the group presentations and on the contribution of the specific student.

In-Class Presentation:

Give an overview of the setting examined in your ethnography. 

• Discuss the characteristics of the neighborhood and building where the ethnography was set.
• Characterize the time period in which the ethnography was conducted.
• Report how the ethnographer achieved access to the setting and what role he or she played within it.
• Describe the people or types of people depicted in the ethnography.

MOO Presentation:

Be prepared to answer questions about the friendships in the setting.

• Be prepared to answer questions about the structure and processes of friendship dyads and networks in the setting. Keep in mind that the researcher will not have used this terminology. You should, however, understand these terms well enough after the second unit to prepare this summary. 

• Be ready to describe any variation in the structure and process of friendship dyads and networks in this setting which is attributable to differences in gender, race, age, class. Do any other individual characteristics affect friendship patterns in this setting? If so, be prepared to descirbe these differences as well.

• Be able to explain how the characteristics of friendships in this context are different because of the cultural, temporal, physical, and structural dimensions of the setting? In other words, be ready to describe the connection between the setting and the friendship patterns that are formed and maintained within it. In some cases, the researcher may not have specifically discussed these connections and therefore you will have to deduce them.

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