field studies
Research in nature
Field studies are research conducted in real-world settings rather than laboratories or controlled environments.
Scientists, anthropologists, and social researchers go into the field—forests, communities, workplaces—to observe phenomena as they naturally occur.
The term emphasizes direct engagement with subjects in their native context: Her field studies of primate behavior took her to Uganda for three years.
Field study is the singular form.
- firsthandWithout intermediary
- ecologyStudy of environmental relations
- ethnographySystematic study of peoples
- anthropologyStudy of human cultures
- local communityNearby group of residents
conservation biology · agriculture · botany · primary sources · data collection · wildlife management · biodiversity · sociology · wildlife observation · ornithology · forestry · psychology · zoology · climatology · linguistics · notebook · archaeology · hydrology
- ecologyhabitat, ecosystem, balance, niche, food webs
- natural historynatural history, natural history museum, naturalist, naturalists, natural philosophers
- researchresearch papers, researching, archive, peer review, investigating
- scientific researchresearch, experiment, lab experiments, clinical trial, thesis
- field tripsexcursions, excursion, school trip, school trips, class trip
- Psychology ResearchStanford prison experiment, Pavlov's dogs, marshmallow test, classical conditioning, operant conditioning
field studieslaboratory experiments
Controlled scientific investigations indoors
controlled experiments · laboratory work · laboratory research · lab work · clinical trials
field studiespure theory
armchair philosophy · mathematical modeling · thought experiments · deductive reasoning
study, field, studied, studying, fields, studies, battlefield, airfield, fielded