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Framework for Research and Methodology in Ethnography (FRAME)

 

Description
 

The Framework for Research and Methodology in Ethnography (FRAME) is a higher level topic outline under which the many categories of the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM) have been grouped.

Discussion
 

The OCM is useful for coding notes and data and as a source of topics to explore, but the OCM system with its list of 79 categories and hundreds of subcategories is unwieldy and does not lend itself to the conceptualizing and planning of field research. The OCM developers did not want to have a higher-level outline, for reasons which they explain in their Introduction.

 

FRAME adapts the OCM for field research projects by linking the categories of the OCM to ten high-level categories. It provides a conceptual model for investigating culture in a way that helps field researchers in the process of language and culture learning.

 
See also:

Overview of the Language learning workshop

 

Some of the categories that appear in FRAME's outline do not appear as such in the OCM.

 
Example:

Social Groups

In FRAME's outline, this term is a domain category under which a number of related OCM categories are subsumed,

  • Interpersonal Relations [57]
  • Marriage [58]
  • Family [59]
  • Kinship [60]
  • Kin Groups [61]
 
Note:

FRAME is intended as an entry level set of categories to facilitate access to the more definitive levels of data coding provided by the OCM. We recommend that researchers code data to at least the the third level to achieve the minimal degree of specification useful for many projects.


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