Winding Down

So today Diana wasn't able to come in today. Her poor daughter has a cold. But we still have a lot to do. We will be working on confirming the people we have recruiting and seding a recruitment log to Diana. She also explained to us what she will be doing with the transcripts we complete. Basically the transcripts will be coded. Coding is going through transcripts and deciphiring what certain terms/phrases contributes to a theme. A theme is what researchers believe to be the big picture of what the transcript(s) is. She gave us an examply of her Latina study where the theme was a family first kinda thing. She also told us the importance of having more than one researcher reading through the transcript. For instance there was an anthropolgist by the name of Margaret Mead. She went to Samoa to study the culture and over all way of life. Diana said that Mead reported that young females said that the they experience a lot of sexual freedome. Which shocked myself and Uncle Joey because we both know very well that the Samoan culture is super strict/conservative. So another anthopologist went to Samoa, a man, and got a different story. Here's a link to read what Mead wrote http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/scientist/margaret_mead.html There is still dispute to whether which story is true. But it just sets an example of why more than one interpretation is needed. All we have to do now is finish transcribing and getting ready for the focus group. Our hours are almost finish, it's kind of winding down. Not in a bad way, just because we're almost done.