In Chapter 4 of your Creswell textbook, the authors’ state

PSY-536 – Assignment 7

In Chapter 4 of your Creswell textbook, the authors’ state: 

The ethnographer moves into a theme analysis of patters or topics that signifies how the cultural groups works and lives, and ends with an “overall picture of how a system works” (Fetterman, 2010, p. 10). Fetterman describes the function of thick QUESTION – QUESTION for the reader, stating “ideally the ethnographer shares the participant’s understanding of the situation with the reader. Thick QUESTION – QUESTION is a written record of cultural interpretation. This QUESTION – QUESTION includes verbatim quotes reflective of cultural concepts such as the social structure, kinship, political structure, and the social relations or functions among members incorporating the views of the participants (emic) as well as the views of the researcher (etic). 

Using your field observation that you completed during Week 4 (or conducting a completely new observational study if preferred), write a thick QUESTION – QUESTION that summarizes your observations. Depending on the nature of your observational study, you may not have emic perspectives to formally summarize, although you may be able to infer cues from your observations (especially if you observed people). Under any observational condition, you will have an etic perspective to report from as well.