Participant Observation and How to Conduct it

Participant Observation Paper
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Participant Observation Paper
In participant observation, the researcher participates in a social group to observe and collect descriptive information about their experiences and behaviors within a given environment. It enables the researcher to understand how the social group makes rationales of their behaviors and experiences in particular contexts (Frey, 2018). On the other hand, naturalistic observation is different from participant observation since it entails observing the environment to collect data from its inherently occurring contexts to help in answering research questions (Allen, 2017). Unlike participant observation, where the researcher lives with the community or social group they are investigating, naturalistic observation enables the researcher to leverage mobile technologies to study communities virtually.
I would study disability in old age to obtain critical perspectives on the subject matter. Traditionally, the biomedical theoretical approach has been used to study vision loss problems in aging population groups. Participant observation is a good framework that enables the researcher to locate aging populations and collect data from the immediate environment, thus deducing critical perspectives on the specific population...