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With regular exercises, lists of key terms and points and self-evaluation checklists, Doing Ethnography systematically describes the various phases of an ethnographic inquiry and provides numerous examples, suggestions and advice for the novice ethnographer. Ethnography seeks to understand, describe and explain the symbolic world lying beneath the social action of groups, organizations and communities. This book clearly sets out the coordinates and foundations of this increasingly popular methodology. Giampietro Gobo discusses all the major issues, including the research design, access to the field, data collection, organisation and analysis, and communication of the results.
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Giampietro Gobo
- In:Doing Ethnography
- Chapter DOI:https://
doi. org/10.4135/9780857028976 - Subject:Anthropology, Business and Management, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Communication and Media Studies, Education, Geography, Health, Marketing, Nursing, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Social Policy and Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology
- Keywords:social science
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2 Method or Methodology? Locating Ethnography in the Methodological Landscape
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- To understand that ethnography is a methodology (a style of thinking and doing), not a mere technique.
- To learn an alternative classification of the array of social research methodologies, avoiding the qualitative/quantitative opposition.
- To locate ethnography in the social research ...
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