Michelle has spent the past year among a subculture of twenty somethings who all listen to the same kind of music. She spends time with them, participates in their events, and observes their interactions and behaviors. All the while, she records what she witnesses in her field notebook. What kind of sociological research best describes what Michelle is doing?

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Denise

22 May, 10:05

Michelle has spent the past year among a subculture of twenty somethings who all listen to the same kind of music. She spends time with them, participates in their events, and observes their interactions and behaviors. All the while, she records what she witnesses in her field notebook. What kind of sociological research best describes what Michelle is doing?

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Georgia Ochoa · Answer 1

ethnography

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Ethnography: In sociology, the term ethnography is defined as a phenomenon that has been emerged through anthropology and therefore it is being adopted by many different sociologists and is considered as one of the qualitative methodologies. It involves the study of social interactions, small societies behaviors, beliefs, observation & participation over a particular period and hence the interpretation of certain data being collected.

In reference to the question, Michelle is doing ethnography.