Ethnography
In: The global review of ethnopolitics, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 88-90
ISSN: 1471-8804
In: The global review of ethnopolitics, Band 1, Heft 2, S. 88-90
ISSN: 1471-8804
In: Journalism & mass communication quarterly: JMCQ, Band 86, Heft 1, S. 191-198
ISSN: 2161-430X
Many qualitative studies in journalism and mass communication research draw on ethnographic methods that originated in anthropology and sociology. These methods involve studying people within their own cultural environment through intensive fieldwork; they emphasize the subjects' frames of reference and understandings of the world. This article uses a comparison between journalism and ethnographic research as a framework for highlighting common problems with manuscripts using this method. It offers veteran ethnographers' tips about what they look for in a manuscript and identifies three ethnographies that are examples of successful application of the method to topics of interest to journal readers.
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 377, 392,
ISSN: 0002-7642
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 43, Heft 5, S. 547-579
ISSN: 1573-7853
In: Cultural studies - critical methodologies, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 394-402
ISSN: 1532-7086
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 43, Heft 3, S. 377-391
ISSN: 1552-3381
This article asks methodological questions about studying infrastructure with some of the tools and perspectives of ethnography. Infrastructure is both relational and ecological—it means different things to different groups and it is part of the balance of action, tools, and the built environment, inseparable from them. It also is frequently mundane to the point of boredom, involving things such as plugs, standards, and bureaucratic forms. Some of the difficulties of studying infrastructure are how to scale up from traditional ethnographic sites, how to manage large quantities of data such as those produced by transaction logs, and how to understand the interplay of online and offline behavior. Some of the tricks of the trade involved in meeting these challenges include studying the design of infrastructure, understanding the paradoxes of infrastructure as both transparent and opaque, including invisible work in the ecological analysis, and pinpointing the epistemological status of indictors.
In: Organization: the critical journal of organization, theory and society, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 5-31
ISSN: 1350-5084
In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Band 6, Heft 3
Der Beitrag behandelt eine besondere Art der soziologischen Ethnographie, die vor allem, aber nicht ausschließlich in der angewandten Forschung eingesetzt wird. Es wird vorgeschlagen, diese Art der Ethnographie als "fokussierte Ethnographie" zu bezeichnen. Die fokussierte Ethnographie wird vor dem Hintergrund der herkömmlichen Formen der Ethnographie beschrieben. Sie bildet weniger einen Gegensatz als eine Ergänzung zu diesen herkömmlicheren Formen, da sie sich besonders für die moderne differenzierte Gesellschaft eignet. Der Beitrag skizziert die Hintergründe wie auch die wesentlichen methodologischen Merkmale der fokussierten Ethnographie, wie etwa kurzfristige Feldaufenthalte, Datenintensität und Zeitintensität, um damit die Möglichkeiten für weitere Forschungen zu ebnen.
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 5-31
ISSN: 1461-7323
In this article, we extend and refine Van Maanen's metaphorical insight that ethnographers learn interpretive skills `more akin to learning to play a musical instrument than to solving a puzzle' by focusing on the parallels between ethnography and jazz. Our central argument is that ethnographers are engaged in a dual quest for self-identity and empathy that is improvised in ways resembling the musical `conversation' between performing jazz musicians. We suggest several ways in which ethnography can be articulated with reference to jazz in order to address three of the central problems ethnographers face: (1) handling the delicate balance between self and other in fieldwork and in writing; (2) engaging in the everyday life of the culture being studied; and (3) choosing criteria to apply in judging the quality of ethnographic research. Drawing a parallel between the ethnographer and the jazz soloist, we deliberately implicate a very broad conception of ethnography as a fundamentally creative, exploratory and interpretive process. The three co-authors consciously produced this article using the ethnographic equivalent of improvised conversation embedded in rounds of writing and revision. These interactions carried us beyond our initial understandings of our own practices and generated new understandings that fed back into our layered, textual reworkings. Our depiction of ethnographers as jazz soloists is an attempt to grasp some of the subtleties and complexities in the working lives of ethnographers, and to offer them up for inspection, comment, critique, and elaboration in a continuing conversation with our readers.
In: Australasian marketing journal: AMJ ; official journal of the Australia-New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC), Band 14, Heft 2, S. 47-50
In: Administrative science quarterly: ASQ ; dedicated to advancing the understanding of administration through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 201-205
ISSN: 0001-8392
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 10, Heft 8, S. 26-29
ISSN: 1552-3381
In: Policing and society: an international journal of research and policy, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 98-115
ISSN: 1477-2728
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography, DH Drake, R Earle and J Sloan (eds), 2015, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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