Sharing the World: Reading your social meeting reflections

[Carissa Sousa]

10/7/19

• Self-reflection: meditation or serious thought about one's character, actions, and motives
• Participative observation: one type of data collection method typically used in qualitative research and ethnography
• Symbolic interaction: sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to people's particular utilization of dialect to make images and normal implications, for deduction and correspondence with others
• Auto-ethnography: form of qualitative research in which an author uses self-reflection and writing to explore anecdotal and personal experience and connect this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings
• Dichotomous thinking: the failure in a person's thinking to bring together the dichotomy of both positive and negative qualities of the self and others into a cohesive, realistic whole
• Structures and structuring: the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex
• Interpretation: the action of explaining the meaning of something
Sharing thoughts and mental processes: sharing everything that you can do with your mind