Full Description
This text is a follow up to Spradley's earlier ethographic research handbook, The Ethnographic Interview, and guides students through the technique of participant observation to research ethnography and culture. Spradley also teaches students how to analyze the data they collect, and write an ethnography. The appendices include research questions and writing tasks.
Contents
Part I. Ethnography and Culture Ethnography and Culture: Ethnography for What? The Ethnographic Research Cycle. Part II. The Developmental Research Sequence: Locating a Social Situation. Doing Participant Observation. Making an Ethnographic Record. Making Descriptive Observations. Making a Domain Analysis. Making Focused Observations. Making a Taxonomic Analysis. Making Selected Observations. Making a Componential Analysis: Discovering Cultural Themes. Taking a Cultural Inventory. Writing an Ethography. Appendices. The Developmental Research Sequence Method. Developmental Research Sequence Writing Tasks. Bibliography. Index.
