The Role of a Researcher in Keeping the History Alive with Ethnography Based Researches

Running Head: THE ROLE OF A RESEARCHER IN KEEPING THE HISTORY ALIVE FOR THE NEXT
GENERATIONS WITH ETHNOGRAPHY BASED RESEARCHES
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Running Head: THE ROLE OF A RESEARCHER IN KEEPING THE HISTORY ALIVE FOR THE NEXT
GENERATIONS WITH ETHNOGRAPHY BASED RESEARCHES
Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
The Role of a Researcher...........................................................................................................3
The advantages of an ethnographic approach........................................................................4
Disadvantages of ethnographic observations.........................................................................4
An overview of the Loïc Wacquant’s Research.........................................................................4
The impact of the research.........................................................................................................6
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................7
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Running Head: THE ROLE OF A RESEARCHER IN KEEPING THE HISTORY ALIVE FOR THE NEXT
GENERATIONS WITH ETHNOGRAPHY BASED RESEARCHES
Introduction
History is all about facts, it tells us some stories and the emphasis of this storytelling remains
more on the facts and the events that turned the course of destiny for many people.
Sometimes it omits less significant years. It won't be far-fetched when we will say that
history presents a skeleton of the events. Ethnography based researches, on the other hand,
allow us to see the things in flash and blood (Stephen L. Schensul, 2013).
Most of the secondary sources of the history and representations of historical events in
popular culture literature borrow an important piece of information from the works of
ethnography based researches (Pelto, 2017). Ethnography based researches are qualitative
researches. In the current paper, we will understand a few things about the exact stance and
viewpoint of an ethnography base researchers with an intention to examine the truth of the
hypothesis which says,
“Ethnographic research is a qualitative research tool that has the power to bring out the
social contexts and cultural flavors of any society that history loses under the burden of the
accuracy of the facts”.
The Role of a Researcher
In the case of a qualitative research, a researcher has three options; he can become a
participant or an observer. He can interview the subjects and finally, he can choose for a
focus group. This we can understand with the example of the researcher and author Loïc
Wacquant’s. He used boxing ring as a metaphor and exposed “Carnal Sociology” associated
with it he denounced the concept of the underclass (Boxer, 2006). In order to substantiate his
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