Key Concepts in Ethnography

by Karen O'Reilly

• ISBN13: 9781412928649
• ISBN10: 1412928648
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-26
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

'This is a very attractive and welcoming text that is extremely lucid, engaging and often humorous. The author manages to pack the text with many, many relevant examples from key ethnographies, as well as drawing upon her own research experiences and writings. This book is very student friendly which is a major advantage and has found a niche in tone, approach and content; I will refer to it in my own work and teaching' - Paul Willis, Professor of Social/Cultural Ethnography, Keele UniversityAt last, an accessible, authoritative, non-nonsense guide to the key concepts in one of the most widely used methodologies in social science: Ethnography.The book:" Covers and summarises the basic and related issues in ethnography that are covered nowhere else in a single text" It is an outstanding teaching and research resource which examines topics like 'sampling' and 'generalising' as well as embracing new fields such as virtual, visual and multi-sighted ethnography." Time-honoured themes such as key informants, access, participant observation and rapport are here as well as key contemporary issues such as reflexivity, writing and ethics." Each concept is presented comprehensively yet critically, with relevant examples.This is not quite an encyclopaedia but far more than a dictionary. It is comprehensive yet brief. It is small and neat, easy to hold and flick through. It is what students and researchers have been waiting for.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Access

Analysis

Asking Questions

Case Study

Chicago School

Coding

Computer Software

Covert

Critical Ethnography

Ethics

Feminist Ethnography

Fieldnotes

Focus Groups and Group Discussions

Generalisation

Going 'Native'

Grounded Theory

Holism

Inductive and Deductive

Insider Ethnographies

Interpretivism

Interviews and Conversations

Key Informants and Gatekeepers

Malinowski

Multi-sited and Mobile Ethnographies

Participant Observation

Participant Observer Oxymoron

Positivism

Postmodern Ethnographies

Rapport

Realism

Reflexivity

Sampling

Team Ethnography

Time

Virtual Ethnography

Visual Ethnography

Writing

Where to find other ethnographic concepts

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