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enable to lay a foundation for a further study about Academy Award and other popular rites in the future
F. Methodology of Research
1. Type of Research This research applies a library research. It means all of the data
and information to this research were taken from text books and other printed materials, such as magazines, journals, papers, and so on. Besides
making use of the official websites of The Academy Award, printed materials and text books, the researcher also collected the data from online
media or internet which provides related articles and other important publications. The researcher also took into account some other sources that
may contribute to the validity of this research. The researcher employed Descriptive Qualitative Research. In
this descriptive research, the researcher looked for, collected, classified, then analyzed the data to draw conclusion. Emmanuel J. Mason and
William J. Brambel in their book Research in Education and The Behavioral Sciences, Concepts and Methods
stated that descriptive research is a broad spectrum of research activities having the common
purpose of describing situation, events or phenomena. While Qualitative Reseach represents a point of view more than it does a particular
methodology. Qualitative inquiry tends to emphazise meaning in context
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more than specific finding in the form of facts or particular element of knowledge 1997: 68-69.
In order to focus in such matters only, was applied to collect the data. This technique was applied to
reach a certain purpose based on previous knowledge. Intentionally, it will consider only some key areas. It means that not all of the population will
be represented by the research sample Hadi, 1980:81-82. In this research the key area was The 79th Annual Academy Award.
2. Data and Source of Data The data in this research were divided into two, the primary data
and the secondary data. The primary data were the images seen from photograps of the Oscar Night and information from the Academy Award
Rules and articles about the ceremony taken from the official websites of Academy Award www.academyawards.com and www.oscars.org. The
secondary data were in the form of images seen from pictures and information taken from articles, journals and other related writings, such
as pictures from www.viewimages.com, www.emol.org, article from Eve Magazine, and many others.
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3. Technique of Collecting and Analyzing Data The data in this research were gathered from downloading the
official websites of Academy Award and other sites and from other printed media, such as magazines, journals, essays and television programs that
were related to the topic. All of the data were specified and categorized based on the type of data. The first step in analyzing the data was reading
the data, then analyzing the primary and secondary data by applying the aprroaches and theories. The last was drawing the conclusion in order to
answer the research questions.
G. Theoretical Approach
