An investigation of the Observational Method of Two Cultures

Thesis Statement

Cultures high on influence stretch foster associations with larger centralization of association and method, bigger organizational pyramids, bigger percentages of supervisory personnel. (Matsumoto & Juang,  p. 435)

Introduction

Many Jewish Americans reply that intermarriage is inescapable and the Jewish community should construct on any thing attachments the intermarried twosome may still have with a Jewish ethnic culture. There are many programs all through the connected States to assist Gentile spouses of Jews appear welcome in order that the belief will not misplace them both. Yet other Jews appear that such efforts may be dispatching a unsafe pointer that intermarriage is inevitable. Therefore, it is not astonishing to glimpse that likely more than any other ethnic or devout assembly, associations interior the Jewish community ascribe study on the tendencies in intermarriage

 

 Observation Method

Observation is one of the basic methods of study undertook by sociologists, heritage anthropologists, and communal psychologists. It can either stand on its own as a facts and numbers assemblage procedure or be paired with one or more other entails of facts and numbers collection. The reason of observational study is to record assembly undertakings, dialogues, and interactions as they occur and to ascertain the meanings of such happenings to participants. Observations may take location either in lab backgrounds conceived by the investigator or in area backgrounds that are the natural loci of chosen activities. Data drawn from from fact may be either encoded quantitatively, often through the use of normalized checklists or study tour guides, or rendered as open-ended narrative descriptions. Data are noted in either in writing or taped (audio and/or video) pattern and may comprise of either numerical or narrative portrayals of personal backgrounds, activities, interaction patterns, meanings (expressed or implicit), and signs of emotion.

 

Discussion

One of the foremost risks and trials to Jewish Americans has been intermarriage. An early study in the 1960s alarmed the community: Intermarriage was 17% and rising. Today, the number is larger than 50%. This has directed to alert but it has furthermore directed to a improved tolerance and acceptance of non-Jewish partners. Some even great delight in the method, glimpsing it as a entails of enlarging and broadening the community.

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