The ethnographic approach in social research

1. quantitative specification questions are used

2. - It is necessary to know how significant social action is registered and interpreted. - it is necessary to have the theoretical and methodological background. - the proposals pointed out by systematic observations and interpretations of the event everyday classrooms and schools promise production of entrenched theories

3. Classrooms

4. investigation, question and dimension analysis

4.1. the questions must be related to the dimensions of analysis

4.2. there are three dimensional classifications: political and institutional, curricular and social

4.2.1. these three conform the school culture

5. delimitation of the empirical referent

5.1. delimit context

5.1.1. urban, marginal urban, peasant, migratory

5.2. the actors

5.2.1. the principal, teachers, students, parents

5.3. the escenaries

5.3.1. school environment, school campus, schoolyard, classroom

5.4. observation and interview units

5.4.1. situations or significative themes

6. guesswork

6.1. Conjecture means the judgment that is formed (moral, ethical or mathematical) of things or events by indications or observations. In mathematics, the concept of conjecture refers to a statement