Question

Dr. Fielding is interested in the stratification system in the United States and how it is perpetuated through time. Fielding decides to examine the experiences of minority students who seek college counseling in high school. He interviews minority students in four high schools to learn whether their personal experiences tell him something about stratification in the U.S. After interviewing the minority students Fielding interviews non-minority students, school administrators, guidance counselors, teachers, parents, and social workers at the same four high schools. Fielding is probably using a/an _____ approach. A. ethnomethodology B. ethnography C. institutional ethnography D. case study

Answer 1

Answer: C) institutional ethnography

Explanation:

Institutional ethnography is described as the kind of study of carrying out a research on a particular process, study or environment. It's when a researcher takes time to learn of or study a process painstakingly. It was introduced by a Canadian known as Dorothy J. Smith in 1990's.

Dr Fielding is carrying out a research on stratification system in the United States and how it is perpetuated through time, the method he goes by the research proves he's using an institutional ethnography