is the learned and shared knowledge that people use to generate behavior and interpret experiences

Spradley Ethnography and culture- Ethnographers want to access culutres of societies

state of anxiety that results from cross-cultural misunderstanding

Lee- Eating Chistmas

Working to understand the insults towards his gifts.

Social scientist observe human subjects of their study

Sterk- Feild Work on Prostitutions

Not interfeiring with prostitues' choices

belief that one's own culture is best

Gmelch- Nice Girls don't talk to Rasta's

The class base society of Jamaica

discovering and describing a particular culture

Spradley Understading another way of life from the native point of view.

Cultural knowledge that people can talk about

Linguistics

Individuals in the observers group who can teach the subject culture

Sterk- Prostitutes

systems of cultural knowledge

Gmelch- Rastas being issolated the coast and considered out cast

the belief that people everywhere see the world in the same way

Gmelch- Student who could not understad the dissaproveal of the rastas

person to answer the investigators question

Lee- Kalahari

Sterk- Prostitues

Gmelch- Jamiacans

The focus of the observers study

Miner- American Bathroom use

Cultural knowledge that people can not explain with words

Miner- Unspoken traditions using the bathroom