Ethnographic Essay Examples

This paper will discuss various research correlating the delinquent behavior of gang membership, Conflict theory and the Rational Choice theory. An explanation will be given explaining how these theories account for the existence of said behavior. An in depth look at the two theories will cover the history and significance to the juvenile justice system….

The United States’ population is densely white, the majority of policy makers are straight white males, and American educators are heavily straight white women; this results in people of color being disproportionately underrepresented in American schools. Consequently, kids in schools are not given the chance to succeed in the way they would if there were…

Human, a kind of primates, can be defined as a social animals. It means that human live in groups with several members, so called “family”. With the evolution in thousands of years, human formed a relatively perfect system in kinship. However, this system will be changed by the time and the living environment. Sibling care…

This case involves Xerox, a global brand recognized for their document and printing technology products. With the rapid socio-technological advances happening daily, Xerox sought to better understand the impact that these changes would have on the use of paper, printing, and electronic documents. Modern technology, with mobile devices and broadband internet access, has given people…

As film has become a medium for anthropologists to present their conclusions to the world, problems have arisen because of our association of the camera lens with the unmediated view of the eye. In contrast with a written article where a reader can really stop to think about what is being presented, the film-viewer must…

A qualitative research design was chosen in order to conduct an exploratory research on the question “In which way does Bicommunal Activism influence the Cyprus-Issue on Societal and Political Level?”. This approach allowed a less restricted and broader research (Maxwell 2008: 214ff) on a topic which offers limited literature on dynamics and opinions within the…

Writing Women’s World, by Lila Abu-Lughod, is an ethnography which shows a description about the lives of women in a small Bedouin community in Egypt. The women would tell their stories to Abu Lughod, she is an American anthropologist who study the social construct of Bedouin community and the relationship between women and men. Abu-…

With markets changing and society constantly evolving, people’s interests and the things they seek also change on a daily basis. The very dynamic nature of the workplace and consumerism is the essence of how old methods slowly fade out as new ideas become introduced. Through technological innovations and modern research, new products are created and…

Rather frequently, diversified indigenous civilizations of Africa appear indistinguishable in museums that structure their cultural exhibits through a Western hegemonic perspective. That is to say, each society’s cultural significance is presented solely in the dominate interpretation of a western ethnographer. The Hall of African People in the Museum of Natural History has transcended its ethnographic…