Frances is assigned a research project in which she is to attend a celebratory family meal and analyze her experiences as she participates in the meal. She is asked to make a detailed account of the meal that includes her thoughts and feelings about the event. What type of research is Frances assigned?

Frances is assigned an autoethnographic research.

Explanation:

Frances is assigned an autoethnographic research. Autoethnography is a kind of research in which the person doing it is the center of the cultural analysis. In this case, Frances has to analyze her own experience during the celebratory family meal she has to attend. Her feelings and her connection to the family, their culture, their habits and the event itself are to be analyzed. Ethnography, on the other hand, is a kind of research that observes and analyses culture by being there and getting to know the object being studied. But the conclusions are not personal, the feelings of the researcher are not the aim of the research itself. In this case, if Frances had to do an ethnographic research, she should have attended the meal and observe everything without taking in consideration her own feelings and interpretation of the event.

Answer: Auto-ethnography.

Explanation:

From the given case/scenario we can state that Frances is assigned the auto-ethnographic research study. Auto-ethnography is known as or referred to as the kind of qualitative study or research under which the researchers tend to use their personal experience in order to explain and explore stories of different or various political, cultural and social views of different strata and groups.