Ethnography

Principles in Practice
5 ed
ISBN: 978-1-041-45875-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Now in its fifth edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and extensively rewritten. It offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice, including discussion of digital ethnography and the role of artificial intelligence in the organisation and analysis of data.

The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process. This requires recognition that social research is part of the world it studies, and demands that researchers reflect on how they shape both data and analysis. Starting in Chapter 1 with an outline of the principle of reflexivity, against the background of competing research philosophies, the authors go on to discuss the main features of ethnographic work, including:

• the selection and sampling of cases

• the problem of access

• field relations and observation

• interviewing

• the use of documents

• recording and organizing data

• the process of data analysis

• writing research publications

• ethical issues involved in ethnographic research

Throughout, the discussion draws on a wide range of illustrative material from classic to more recent studies, within a global context. The new edition of this popular textbook will be an indispensable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and for all researchers using ethnographic methods in the social sciences and the humanities.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hammersley, Martyn

Atkinson, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What is ethnography? 2. Research design: problems, cases, and samples 3. Gaining Access 4. Field relations 5. Oral accounts and the role of interviewing 6. Documents and other artefacts, real and virtual 7. Ethnography in the digital world 8. Recording, processing, and organising data 9. The task of analysis 10. Writing ethnography 11. Ethics Epilogue: A distinctive analytic sensibility

Über Autor(innen)

Martyn Hammersley is Emeritus Professor of Educational and Social Research at The Open University, UK. He has written several other books, including Reading Ethnographic Research (1997), The Politics of Social Research (1995), Questioning Qualitative Inquiry (2008), The Myth of Research-Based Policy and Practice (2013), The Limits of Social Science (2014), The Radicalism of Ethnomethodology (2018), Methodological Concepts (2023), and A Dictionary of Social Research Methodology (2025).

Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. Recent publications include: Sara Delamont and Paul Atkinson, Ethnographic Engagements (2021), Emilie Morwenna Whitaker and Paul Atkinson, Reflexivity and Social Research (2022), and Emilie Morwenna Whitaker and Paul Atkinson, Ethnographic Explorations: Surrender and Resistance (2023). Previous books include For Ethnography (2014), Thinking Ethnographically (2017), Writing Ethnographically (2019) and Crafting Ethnography (2022).