Ethnography

Lee Miller: Ethics, photography and ethnography
News
September 30, 2024

Lee Miller: Ethics, photography and ethnography

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Using Ethnography to Explore Entrepreneurial Extracurricular Activities
Business and Management INK
September 6, 2024

Using Ethnography to Explore Entrepreneurial Extracurricular Activities

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Exploring Hybrid Ethnography with Liz Przybylski
Sage Research Methods
August 20, 2024

Exploring Hybrid Ethnography with Liz Przybylski

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What Ethnographers Have Learned from People Who Use Drugs
Impact
July 25, 2022

What Ethnographers Have Learned from People Who Use Drugs

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Ethnography’s Denominator Blues

Ethnography’s Denominator Blues

Steven Lubet set out to investigate whether ethnography’s characteristic reliance on unverified accounts may sometimes produce misinformation. He argues that In any other academic discipline, his findings would have provoked less umbrage and more reinvestigation.

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Parsing Fact and Perception in Ethnography

Parsing Fact and Perception in Ethnography

Fact and perception are simply different categories, neither of which is necessarily more important than the other, argues Steve Lubet. . The challenge for ethnographers lies in making clear and careful distinctions between what they have actually seen and what they have only heard about.

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Finding Fault with Faux Facts

Finding Fault with Faux Facts

No matter how exquisite the details, it is important to separate fact from folklore – which should not require cross examination.

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Journalism vs. Ethnography: Checking the Facts

Journalism vs. Ethnography: Checking the Facts

While journalism might at times be seen as a sort of ‘ethnography lite,’ when it comes to checking out the field reporter’s facts it’s much more of a heavy hitter.

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Self and Social: An Interview About Autoethnography

Self and Social: An Interview About Autoethnography

Janet Salmons, the methods guru at our sister site MethodSapce, interviewed Dr. Peter Gloviczki about his use of autoethnographic methods.

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The Virtue of Checking Documentation: You Never Know What You Will Find

The Virtue of Checking Documentation: You Never Know What You Will Find

New revelations about the influential ‘Being Sane in Insane Places’ experiment by David Rosenhan provide a valuable lesson for other social scientists. You never know what you will find once you begin fact-checking sources against available documentation.

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Ashley Mears on the Global Party Circuit

Ashley Mears on the Global Party Circuit

Ashley Mears describes modern jet-setting club life at the VIP level and the Veblen-esque conspicuous consumption, its “ritualized squandering” in Mears words, that is its hallmark.

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Writing Social Science Fiction in the Age of the Metrix

Writing Social Science Fiction in the Age of the Metrix

Burned out by the hamster-wheel of academe and the regime of metrics, John Postill decided the tonic would be to write a spoof spy thriller about a Spanish nerd with a silly name who moves to London in 1994 and accidentally foils a terrorist plot by an evil anthropologist.

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