Ethnography essentials: designing, conducting, and presenting your research

Ethnography Essentials: Designing, Conducting, and Presenting Your Research is an innovative and engaging introduction to ethnographic methods, perfect forstudents throughout the social sciences. Students will learn fundamental techniques and challenges of ethnographic research and writing, encountering techniques and challenges through first-hand experiences as they use the book to work through their own ethnographic project. The book emphasizes qualitative research methods and design, the hallmark of most ethnographic research. In addition, the book also concentrates on the importance of constructing a complete ethnography, starting with a research design that allows for productive data collection followed by informed analysis and culminating in a well-crafted finalethnography. The book explains in detail how data collection, analysis, and writing are all connected, and helps researchers analyze the different components of a good ethnography. I. The Why and the What of Ethnography What is Ethnography? Choosing an Ethnographic Topic Choosing Topics that can be usefully explored using Ethnographic Methods Practical Concerns Research Design Writing aProposal II. Ethnography in the Field: Collecting Data A Guide to Collecting Data and Taking Notes Participant Observation Interviews Analyzing Along the Way Mapping Kinship and Organizational Charts Archives and Secondary Data III. Analyzing and Writing Sorting and Coding Data Answering Questions and BuildingModels Choosing the Appropriate Style of Presentation IV. The Whole Ethnography Putting it All Together Evaluating and Revising Your Ethnography

• ISBN: 978-0-470-34389-0
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés