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Ethnography is a type of qualitative research that involves immersing yourself in a particular community or organization to observe their behavior and interactions up close. The word “ethnography” also refers to the written report of the research that the ethnographer produces afterwards.
Examining the practices of ethnographic research and the relationship between methods and practices has epistemic, methodological, reflexive, and didactic consequences for the field of ethnography. More broadly, such an examination produces new insights for Social Studies of the Social Sciences.
The central aim of ethnography is to provide rich, holistic insights into people’s views and actions, as well as the nature (that is, sights, sounds) of the location they inhabit, through the collection of detailed observations and interviews.
Ethnography is a qualitative research method that emphasizes studying what people do and say in particular contexts. Ethnographers typically spend considerable time observing and interacting with a social group to understand how the group develops cultural constructions and relations.
Focusing on ethnography as a research methodology, the chapter outlines several key attributes that distinguish it from other forms of participant observation–oriented research; provides a general overview of the central paradigms that ethnographers claim and/or move between; and spotlights three principal research methods that most ...
This book offers a wide-ranging guide for conceptualizing, understanding, and critically assessing ethnographic research. It introduces important issues surrounding research design, implementation, presentation, and evaluation.
Meta-ethnography is an evolving approach to synthesising qualitative research and is being increasingly used in healthcare research . A meta-ethnographic approach offers a greater description of methods and higher-order interpretation (an overarching explanation of a phenomenon that goes beyond what the study parts alone imply), compared to a ...