Professional Documents
Culture Documents
and
Par.cipant
Observa.on
PAUL
ATKINSON
MARTYN
HAMMERSLEY
ETHNOGRAPHY
vs
SCIENCE
Natural science is
Cultural
disillusionment
A
highly
destruc.ve
weaponry
An
oppressive
force
that
dominates
the
modern
world
Some.mes
associated
with
male
aggression
and
patriarchy
SCIENCE MODEL
Findings
of
social
research
(including
ethnography)
were
too
masculin.
Limited
by
a
male
point
of
view.
A
bourgeois
social
science,
advocates
of
black
sociology.
Is
it
possible
to
become
a
social
scien.c
knowledge?
The
ndings
reect
only
presupposi.ons
and
sociohistorical
circumstances.
The
ability
of
these
research
to
produce
knowledge
that
is
universally
valid.