'You Don't Know How Lucky You Are to Be Here!': Reflections on Covert Practices in an Overt Participant Observation Study There has been a tendency in sociology to see covert and overt roles of social researchers in participant observation studies as opposites. This is both in......
"CIA Drafts Covert Plan To Topple Hussein." "A major program of sabotage and subversion," the Times said, quoting unnamed "government officials." But a covert plan you read about in the papers is clearly a covert plan no longer.Schorr, Daniel...
Overt discrimination is open discrimination or is a clear form of prejudice. For example, some companies make it clear that they won’t employ anyone who are married or who are over thirty years old….Covert discrimination is a kind of discrimination not openly shown and it’s har...
In recent years, the phenomenon of long queues atbankingoutlets has been nagging the banking industry andhas becomea major public concern.Complaints from customers andovert and covertinvestigations by the media have made banking staff at all levels jumpy all the time.Unsurprisingly, the uncorking of...
It is the computed response of the system or organism to various stimuli or inputs, whether internal or external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary.Taking a behavior informatics perspective, a behavior consists of actor, operation, interactions, and their ...
Some birds migrate to the warmer climates during the winter and some mammals hibernate instead. When children are born, most already know how to suckle and when a person is threatened with harm, many will seek to escape. What is it that guides these behaviors?
There are a few key distinctions in ethnography which help to inform the researcher’s approach: open vs. closed settings, overt vs. covert ethnography, and active vs. passive observation. Each approach has its own advantages and disadvantages. ...
Oppression may be overt or covert, depending on how it is practiced. Depression An area that is sunk below its surroundings; a hollow. Oppression The action of oppressing; arbitrary and cruel exercise of power A system of oppression. Depression The condition of feeling sad or despondent. ...
entrepreneurial alertness has attracted its share of criticisms and critiques, both overt and covertFootnote2. We draw from a rich debating tradition of “steel manning” to offer, as authors who are broadly “pro-alertness”,the strongest arguments againstthe validity and usefulness of the entrepren...
We conducted a cross-sectional ethnographic study [9] to explore relationships between trial oversight groups and their impact, using overt non-participant observation of TSC and TMG meetings and interviews with independent and non-independent TSC members, trial sponsors, funders and CIs. This approa...