Question

A sociologist begins participant observation of a group of community college students in the hopes that she can learn more about how young people form new relationships. When the sociologist is asked to teach an ethnography class, she hangs out with many of those same students and teaches them more about ethnography in a small group setting. She quickly begins to see many of the group members as her friends, and participates in social events with them. Identify the aspects of research methodology that might be problematic for this study.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is -

- representativeness

- replicability

- reflexivity

Explanation:

Ethnographic research has various types of disadvantages that could lead to the problems such as suffers from a lack of replicability which means that it is not able to replications of this methodologically.

Another disadvantage is that generally, people make representatives of the group or subject however, normally this research is not representative of a larger part of society.