Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Tag: participant observation

  • The dark side of Silicon Valley

    California’s booming tech industry has created the most extreme wealth disparity in America. Josie Ensor investigates the tale of two cities By Josie Ensor, San Jose, California 6:00AM GMT 26 Nov 2014 Jimmy hands $2 worth of dimes to the conductor and finds a seat at the back of the bus. He settles himself in…

  • How to do ethnography

    This post aims to explain how to use observation or related methods such as ethnography in social research. Hence the post is divided in three sections. First one aims to answer what does this method mean and come from, second one, what does it make observation different from other methods as in-depth interview or focus…

  • “Gendered strategies of resistance in the workplace”. An example of participant observation study

    I intend to focus on the issue of gendered economic relations on the labor market. I would like to investigate how the feminization of work is produced (on the macro level: by economic, state and labor market transition of diverse sector of the economy) and reproduced (in the every-day life experience of women workers). The…

  • How to use observation method

    This post aims to explain how to use observation or related methods such as ethnography in social research. Hence the post is divided in three sections. First one aims to answer what does this method mean and come from, second one, what does it make observation different from other methods as in-depth interview or focus…