A sample of 100 patients were selected randomly from 10 dharamshalas who qualified the diagnosis of neuroses and developed "trance". They were subjected to tests of suggestability, intelligence, guilt, hostility and neuroticism. Patients with "trance" were significantly more suggestible and expressed more hostility and guilt as compared to those who did not develop trance. Significant differenc...

This paper surveys the most important frameworks of analysis that could assist the ethnographer in detecting the functional mechanisms of such items as ‘elaboration of identity’ or ‘change of identity’. The relationship between speech and social class is also discussed and a model of ethnographic research is provided. The main argument is that research in the ethnography of communication presup...

Using Pierre Bourdieu's theories of social class differentiation and class reproduction, this paper provides an analysis of class-based identity politics in contemporary suburban America. Through a critical ethnography of the emergent, American, upper-middle-class "soccer mom" phenomenon, this study contributes to a growing body of research that interrogates class-based, cultural practices of s...

Designing information resources that actually meet the information needs of individuals requires detailed knowledge of these needs. This poses a challenge for developers. Because the meaning of particular terms can vary by field, professional knowledge differs to some extent in different disciplines, and the questions that people ask assume a certain amount of unarticulated background knowledge...

Through a feminist critique of the ethnography method and the use of reflective HCI and global ethnography methodology, in this paper I will provide a discussion of methodological challenges for transnational design research using ethnographic methods. This discourse is meant to explore potential adjustments to HCI’s common use of ethnographic methods; specific attention is given to transnation...

This article outlines the contribution that ethnography could make to process evaluations for trials of complex health-behaviour interventions. Process evaluations are increasingly used to examine how health-behaviour interventions operate to produce outcomes and often employ qualitative methods to do this. Ethnography shares commonalities with the qualitative methods currently used in health-b...

This paper describes the contributions of rapid ethnography to the design of a web-enabled educational toy, specifically installation and registration. While HCI practitioners increasingly advocate rapid ethnography for early discovery and requirements phases, we discuss the role played by ethnography that spans open ended observation, story telling, conceptual design and iterative prototype ev...

the purpose of the present study was to develop and estimate the psychometric properties of the faith in marital life scale as an instrument for evaluation of religious attitudes toward marital relationship. to this end, a sample of 243 students together with their spouses was selected using the cluster random sampling method from among the students of universities in tehran province. the data ...

Many Korean women living in North America interact with the health care system for a variety of reasons. Frequently, lack of understanding regarding cultural health practices results in misunderstandings and the provision of care that may be culturally inappropriate. The purpose of this critical ethnographic study is to examine how menopause is experienced by a sample of Korean-Canadian women. ...

Aaron Reid In his short story “The Rich Brother” Tobias Wolff delineates a tale of two brothers who have many external differences resulting from their differences in faith. The two brothers are Pete and Donald, and they live in present day California, where their lives are much different from each other. Pete owns a Century 21 franchise and has a wife and two children, and many highly regarded...