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This research describes the social functions of advice genre in Alas. The objective of the research
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accident.The research designwas qualitative with embedded case study as its approach to knowthe Alas’ genre
and ideology. Validity of data analysis involved triangulation technique following the formula: if the meaning
(X) is found, then the expression (Y) is confirmed and if the expression (Y) is found, then the meaning (X) is
confirmed. The results showedthat the social functions of advicein Alas were to give guidance to act and react,
to inform the structural changes of advice, and to guide Alas people in their action and interaction.
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Reflections on Positionality
1. Reflections
on Positionality:
pros, cons and workarounds from an intense fieldwork
Eduardo Gonçalves
http://about.me/cuducos
Marcelo Fagundes
marcelofagundes@insitum.com
2. How might we engage direct sellers in
a digital learning platform for an ongoing
online training support about cosmetics?
3. Project scope
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2 phases ethnographic research
Co-creation
Ethnographic
research
(generative)
PHASE 1
PHASE 2
Concepts
User’s
needs
Hyposthesis
Ethnographic
research
(exploratory)
Analysis
Concepts’
integration
Benefits
Design
principles
Users’ profiles
and opportunities
Analysis
Learning
platform
8. Project scope
2 phases ethnographic research
We got back to some participants from the first phase during the second phase.
Due to that it was possible to compare and analyze the influence the researchers
could have had in participants life and draw a set of reflections about the role of
the ethnographer in terms of positionality.
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9. Project scope
2 phases ethnographic research
We got back to some participants from the first phase during the second phase.
Due to that it was possible to compare and analyze the influence the researchers
could have had in participants life and draw a set of reflections about the role of
the ethnographer in terms of positionality.
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10. “
[Postmodern] ethnographers question the ability of any method to represent
‘reality’ accurately on three grounds: there is no one fixed ‘reality’ in the
postmodern understanding of nature to capture ‘accurately’; all methods are
cultural and personal constructs, collecting partial and selective knowledge;
and since all knowledge is selective, research can offer only a socially
constructed account of the world.”
Brewer (2000:22-23)
11. “
Turning in upon ourselves as researchers makes us look subjectively and
reflexively at how we are positioned.”
Chriseri-Strater (1996:119)
12. Our own position during the fieldwork
as researchers could have influence
over the access to data.
13. Our own position during the fieldwork
as researchers could have influence
over the access to data.
• Ethnography and the Client
• Ethnography and Gender
• Ethnography and Social Positions
15. Ethnography and the Client
It’s recommended to not disclose the name
of the client or it’s presence (if it happened)
during corporate ethnography, since it could
inhibit participants.
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17. “
Sorry for the inconvenience.
I was afraid. You know
that’s too much violence...
And it’s difficult to trust
people nowadays.”
18. Ethnography and the Client
Client’s ethical principles
Asked to discloser
name and presence
Concerns for the research team
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19. Ethnography and the Client
19
Client’s ethical principles
Client’s ethical principles
Asked to discloser
Asked to discloser
name and presence
Concerns for the research team
X
name and presence
Better access within the ethnography;
Encouraged participants to talk more, more
passionate, and more in-depth about the
exact topics that we were looking for
21. Ethnography and Gender
The research theme and the social context led
us to think that going to the field with a men
on the team could inhibit participants.
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24. Strategies
• Assumed secondary roles in order
to fade out during the interactions;
• Slightly pretended to be more feminine
(or tried to avoid being explicitly masculine).
26. Ethnography and Gender
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Theme and social context
Theme and social context
Men in the
Men in the
research team
Concerns for the research team
X
research team
Our positionality as male researchers may already
be enough to influence the research with this
women profile. However, if we succeeded in this
project (and the project results strongly suggest
we did) we believe that gender was a minor issue.
27. Actually, these previous issues were not as important as we
thought. In addition to what we pondered perviously, there
were issues we were not able to foresee that were pretty
helpful to the success of the project.
29. Ethnography and Social Positions
Even if the use of basic ethnography
techniques were as useful as important,
there are some issues that are just
impossible to dismiss: the research team
was Caucasian, some of us were males and
some women we were talking to were
victims of domestic violence with their
husbands being the aggressor.
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30. “
My son was shot due to his involvement with drugs,
with dealers… but you, you don't have this problem,
you studied, you have a job, you should get married.”
31. “
You shouldn't be so attached to any boyfriend,
you have a college degree, you have a good job,
you’re a an independent woman!”
32. Ethnography and Social Positions
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Participants and their
social context
Different
social position
Differences inherent to the research
teams also – and surprisingly – worked as
positive aspect in terms of positionality
and access our participants.
33. Ethnography and Social Positions
We clearly felt that in the beginning of each
interaction participants were suspicious
about what was going on. On the one hand,
probably due to their context. On the other
hand, because of the deeply interest that we
were having on their lives.
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34. “
The KP [Kottai Pillaimar] women also wondered what I was getting out of the
whole exercise. ‘Well, at least a Ph.D.,’ I would joke, but they were not
convinced. Why should anyone leave family and city comforts to spend weeks at
a stretch wandering around the KP villages? Nonetheless, once they had got the
drift of the questions I asked, their responses were quick. They felt that I was
genuinely interested in what they had to say, I remembered the smallest things
they told me and followed up next time. We were soon locked jointly in the
enterprise of discovering their history. Reciprocity was not an issue any more.
Kamala Ganesh (1993:136)
35. “
That's not how it works here, if we
broke up, he'll beat me, even threaten
me with a machete or something.”
36. Ethnography and Social Positions
36
Participants and their
social context
Not used to have
anyone truly listening
Deep level of access to someone's life
because visiting them was something unique
for them, was something that had the
potential to value them – and they felt that.
38. Only by doing our job, we could not avoid to have influence
over the people we were talking to; we changed our source.
It leads us to reflect on the influence that our practice have
on the research object and on the research results itself
– and all the ethical issues involved on that.
39. Ethnography and its Impacts
1
The peculiarities and contingencies
of each fieldwork can challenge the
rules as well as its effects.
39
40. “
[methodological guidelines] are like signpost or a map to provide some
direction and give us clues as to where to go when we get lost.”
De Vaus suggests (2002:7)
41. “
You should not try to follow each step slavishly. Use the method: do not let it use you.”
De Vaus suggests (2002:7)
42. Ethnography and its Impacts
2
To what extent is it possible to
consider that we got to know the
lifestyle of our participants?
Since now they could be different people from what they were before, and since
the very fact of doing the research with them was the catalyst of that change.
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43. Ethnography and its Impacts
43
3
Do we have the right to get into someone else
life and, without notice, drive them to such a
deep impact as we did during this project?
44. All those are unavoidable consequences of the work we do
– and we cannot afford to do it without reflecting on them.
Thank you.
Eduardo Gonçalves
http://about.me/cuducos
Marcelo Fagundes
marcelofagundes@insitum.com
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