The Cultural Experience

by McCurdy, David W.; Spradley, James P.; Shandy, Dianna J.

• ISBN13: 9781577663645
• ISBN10: 1577663640
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Table of Contents

To the Instructor	vii
Part I: Doing Ethnography	1	(100)
Culture and Ethnography	3	(10)
Culture	5	(4)
What Is Culture?	5	(1)
Attributes of Culture	6	(2)
Kinds of Culture	8	(1)
Ethnography	9	(4)
What Is Ethnography?	9	(1)
Naive Realism	9	(1)
Ethnocentrism	10	(1)
Subjects, Respondents, and Informants	10	(3)
Microcultures	13	(8)
What Are Microcultures?	13	(3)
Locating and Choosing a Microculture	16	(5)
Cultural Informants	21	(12)
Locating Cultural Informants	22	(3)
Find an Informant You Already Know	22	(1)
Find an Informant ``Cold Turkey''	23	(1)
Find an Informant through a Go-Between	23	(2)
Attributes of a Good Informant	25	(1)
One Informant or Many?	26	(1)
Identifying Yourself and Explaining the Project	27	(1)
Controlling Anxiety	28	(1)
Recording Ethnographic Field Data	28	(1)
Ethical Responsibilities	29	(4)
Human Subjects Research Requirements	29	(4)
Discovering Folk Terms	33	(10)
The First Interview	34	(4)
Explaining the Research	34	(1)
Asking Descriptive Questions	35	(3)
Descriptive Questions	38	(2)
Field Notes	40	(1)
Preliminary Analysis	41	(2)
Discovering Taxonomic Structure	43	(14)
Taxonomic Structure	43	(5)
Domains	43	(1)
Taxonomies	44	(2)
Semantic Relationships	46	(1)
Design Principles of a Taxonomy	47	(1)
Eliciting Taxonomies	48	(3)
Step 1: Analyzing Field Notes	48	(2)
Step 2: Asking Structural Questions	50	(1)
Troubleshooting for Errors in Taxonomies	51	(3)
Bad Spots	51	(1)
Compound Taxonomies	52	(2)
Why Collect Taxonomies?	54	(3)
Discovering Meaning	57	(10)
Attributional Meaning	57	(2)
Discovering and Displaying Attributional Meaning	59	(8)
Identifying Contrast Sets	59	(1)
Constructing a Paradigm	60	(1)
Checking for Attributes in Your Field Notes	61	(2)
Asking Attribute Questions	63	(2)
Culture or Personal Meaning?	65	(2)
Ethnographic Detail and Cultural Focus	67	(10)
Eliciting Ethnographic Detail	67	(7)
Focusing the Ethnography	74	(3)
Cultural Themes and Cultural Adaptation	77	(6)
Cultural Themes	77	(2)
Discovering Themes	79	(1)
Cultural Strategies	80	(3)
Writing and Using Ethnography	83	(18)
Writing the Ethnography	83	(10)
Cultural Representation	84	(1)
Writing and Ethics	85	(1)
Audience	85	(1)
Choosing a Thesis	86	(1)
Parts of a Paper	87	(3)
Using Taxonomies and Paradigms	90	(1)
Using Quotes	91	(2)
Ethnographic Research and Uses	93	(4)
Research Abroad	93	(1)
Problem-Based Ethnography	93	(4)
Bibliography	97	(4)
Part II: Student Ethnographies	101
Getting the Truth: The Police Detective and the Art of Interviewing	103	(9)
Cole Akeson
Juicing Their Way to the Top: Ethnography of a Tattoo Shop	112	(9)
Jennifer Boehlke
No Money, No Honey: An Ethnography of Exotic Dancers	121	(9)
Melissa Cowell
Where Did the Time Go?: A Look into a Jesuit Pastor's Struggle with Time	130	(9)
Meghan Greeley
``Alice in Wonderland'': The Culture of a Neighborhood Flower Shop	139	(9)
Sana Haque
Dealing with Dickheads: An Ethnography of a Nightclub Staff Member	148	(8)
John Hoch
Ethnography of a Legal Secretary	156	(9)
Jordan Pender
Coping with Stress: An Ethnography of Firefighters	165	(7)
Alex Rubenstein
The Modern Pest Control Revolution	172	(7)
Byron Thayer
Catching Babies: An Ethnography of a Licensed, Traditional Midwife	179
Natasha Winegar