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The Least-Adult Role in Studying Children

Nancy Mandell
- 01 Jan 1988 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 4, pp 433-467
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In this article, three membership roles adopted by researchers in studying young children are considered: a detached observer, a semiparticipatory and a complete involvement role, which is a semi-supervised role.
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Three membership roles adopted by researchers in studying young children are considered: a detached observer, a semiparticipatory and a complete involvement role The complete involvement role, tha

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Research with Children The Same or Different from Research with Adults

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore seven methodological issues in some detail to illustrate the ways in which aspects of the research process usually considered to be the same for both adults and children can p...
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Children's Participation in Ethnographic Research: Issues of Power and Representation.

Pia Christensen
- 01 Apr 2004 - 
TL;DR: The recognition of children's social agency and active participation in research has significantly changed children's position within the human and social sciences and led to a weakening of taken-for-granted assumptions found in more conventional approaches to child research as discussed by the authors.
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Socialization to Gender Roles: Popularity among Elementary School Boys and Girls.

TL;DR: The role of popularity in gender socialization among pre-adolescent children was studied in this article, where the authors found that both boys and girls constructed idealized images of masculinity and femininity on which they modeled their behavior, reflected in the composite of factors affecting children's popularity among their peers.
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Qualitative Research in Practice: Stories from the field

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have shared with us their stories about the qualitative research process while linking their experiences to theory and practice in human services, and they draw on experiences of research undertaken in a variety of human service areas by researchers in Australia, the UK, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
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Research with children: methodological and ethical challenges

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a study conducted with 2-6-year-old children in Iceland, where the purpose was to shed light on children's perspectives on their early childhood settings, and reflect on methodological dilemmas and challenges as well as ethical issues related to informed consent, confidentiality, protection and interactions.
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The Discovery of Grounded Theory

TL;DR: In this paper, the discovery of grounded theory is discussed and grounded theory can be found in the form of a grounded theory discovery problem, where the root cause of the problem is identified.
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Membership roles in field research

TL;DR: The history and history of fieldwork roles can be found in this article, where the Chicago School more radical views on membership and membership experience disengagement have been discussed in the context of field work roles.
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The social world of the child

William Damon
Abstract: In connecting a bow of a pusher boat having a driving power source with a stern of a barge having no driving power source at a recessed portion formed at the stern of the barge, a plurality of freely projectable connecting pins provided at positions in the vicinity of center part of both sides as well as at the bow of the pusher boat are inserted into connecting pin receiving ports formed at corresponding positions in the recess of the barge so as to make both pusher boat and barge to be unified into a single navigable body, and the connecting pins at both sides of the pusher boat and the connecting pin receiving ports provided at the recessed portion at the stern of the barge are arranged in a backward obliquity, or swept back direction, with respect to the lengthwise direction of the boat hull.