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Ethnographic Research
Chapter Twenty-One
Ethnographic Procedures
Ethnographic Concepts
Culture
Holistic Perspective
Contextualization
An Emic
Perspective
Thick Description
Member Checking
A Nonjudgmental
Orientation
These concepts guide the work of ethnographers as they perform field resea
Sampling in Ethnographic
Research
Do Ethnographic Researchers
Use Hypotheses?
Data Collection
in Ethnographic Research
Data Analysis
in Ethnographic Research
Triangulation
(checking the validity
by comparing sources
of information)
Patterns (checking
reliability by revealing
consistencies and
describing matches)
Key Events (a lens
through which to view
a culture)
Visual Representations
(maps, charts,
sociograms)
Statistics (use of nonparametric techniques)
Crystallization (when
everything falls into
place)
Advantages
Disadvantages
It is highly dependent on
the researchers
observations and
interpretations
There is no way to check
the validity of the
researchers conclusion,
since numerical data is
rarely provided
Observer bias is almost
impossible to eliminate
Generalizations are almost
non-existent since only a
single situation is
observed, leaving
ambiguity in the study