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Participant observation

\nParticipant observation emerged as the principal approach to ethnographic research by anthropologists in the twentieth century. It relies on the cultivation of personal relationships with local informants as a way of learning about a culture, and involves both observing and participating in the social life of a group. See also: qualitative research; qualitative psychological research.\n\nCategory:Social sciences/Methodology

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