Ethnography
To successfully and accurately uncover diverging and converging views concerning the traditional Anglican beliefs of marriage, an ethnographic study must be completed. Ethnography is an interpitive method of research which offers diverse views from multiple sources providing qualitative data based on social sciences. The aim of ethnography is to interpret the beliefs and views of a faith through an emic perspective, meaning a study must be conducted as a participant of the faith, which will offer multiple opinions which in terms will either support or disprove the original thesis of a researcher. Through the interactive aspect of ethnography, a researcher will obtain information either through observing or a more structured method such as interviewing, taking data straight from a real life context, which will assist in the interpretation of data and statistics, giving a further depth of knowledge and understanding.
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Methodology
The methods undertaken to receive the data collected were to devise interview questions based on the Anglican rite of marriage, and then choose three participants to take part in the Interviews. The questions were aimed to concentrate on convergences and divergences of the traditional views of marriage as outlined by the Anglican Church, and the interviews were semi structured to allow the full potential of data collection. The participants were selected to receive a wide range of opinions, and consisted of a 43-year-old mother, a 31-year-old father and a 20-year-old engaged man, the goal being to choose participants with a generational gap in order to receive information based on how views have progressed over time. Finally, once the data is collected, it will be analysed in order to identify trends and patterns among the participant’s answers, to find convergences and divergences of the traditional views of marriage, and then to draw conclusions based on the findings.
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