GC Graded Course Components: Research Project--Organizational Strategies

Organizational Strategies

Journalist's Questions
- Who
  - (descriptive--ethnography)
- What
  - (descriptive--ethnography)
- When
  - (descriptive--ethnography)
- Where
  - (descriptive--ethnography)
- How
  - (analytic--ethnology)
- Why
  - (analytic--ethnology)
And you can do this for more than one subtopic
Time Sequence
- 1 ---> T2 ---> T3 ---> T4 ---> . . .
- (In this case T1, T2, . . . can equal scenes in a video, for example)
Space Sequence
- S1 ---> S2 ---> S3 ---> S4 ---> . . .
- (In this case S1, S2, . . . could equal the spacial scenes in the video)
- In other cases -- but not so easy to do with the information provided in this film -- with S1, S2, . . . , you could describe situations East to West, for example
N number of items
- "Ten items define the importance of. . . .
  - First, . . . .
  - Second, . . . .
  - Third, . . . .
  - Fourth, . . . .
  - Fifth, . . . .
  - Finally, . . . .
Most Important ---> Least Important:
- "The most important partition of . . . between Kypseli men and women is. . . ."
- "Next in importance to the men is . . . while women. . . ."
- "The least importance to the men in Kypseli is . . . while women. . . ."
Comparison / Contrast

Points of View
- emic
  - viewing a culture from the inside
  - the term "emic" comes from linguistics: phonemics
    - the study of basic sounds
- etic
  - viewing a culture from the outside
  - the term "etic" comes from from linguistics: phonetics
    - the study of sound units

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