Building Trust
Doing Research to Understand Ethnic Communities- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2009
Summary
This book studies five ethnic communities_South Asian Americans, African Americans, Japanese Americans, Mexican Americans, and Somoan Americans_to understand how their members feel about being studied by researchers. American society has always had tension between and among ethnic groups, and yet our researchers are given limited training, if any, on how to approach various ethnic communities, all of which see their problems and needs differently than those outside their communities. This book bridges that gap by focusing on trust-building as a necessary process in doing good community research. The building of trust requires gaining knowledge of a group's culture and history, their perspective on social problems and issues, and the proper way of interviewing its members, going well beyond the mere building of rapport. This book offers the reader culturally sensitive methods to approach interacting and interviewing members of each of these unique, multifaceted ethnic communities.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2009
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-4350-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-4351-3
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 182
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Chapter 01. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
- Chapter 02. Basic Guidelines for Doing Fieldwork No access
- Chapter 03. Supervision and the Ethics of Doing Fieldwork No access
- Chapter 04. The Fieldwork Experience No access
- Chapter 05. Ethnic Groups and Communities No access
- Chapter 06. The Vietnamese and Other Southeast Asians No access
- Chapter 07. African Americans No access
- Chapter 08. Japanese Americans No access
- Chapter 09. Mexican Americans No access
- Chapter 10. Samoan Americans No access
- Chapter 11. Building Trust No access
- References No access Pages 171 - 176
- Appendix. Interview Schedule and Questionnaire Pilot Ethnic Research Training Project (1980) No access Pages 177 - 178
- Index No access Pages 179 - 182





