Four Ways to Improve the Craft of Fieldwork

Four Ways to Improve the Craft of Fieldwork

Four recommendations for improving the ethnographic research process are advanced: spend more time among research Ss; specify theoretical issues; attend consistently to Ss' categories & meanings; & specify the actual interactional & textual practices that produce ethnography. These...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of contemporary ethnography 1987-04, Vol.16 (1), p.69-89
1. Verfasser: Emerson, Robert M.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Ethnography
Methodological Problems
Qualitative Methods
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Zusammenfassung:Four recommendations for improving the ethnographic research process are advanced: spend more time among research Ss; specify theoretical issues; attend consistently to Ss' categories & meanings; & specify the actual interactional & textual practices that produce ethnography. These proposals are illustrated by an exemplary ethnographic work by Jonathan Rubinstein (City Police, New York: Ferrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1973) that describes a case of police error. 30 References. W. H. Stoddard
ISSN:0891-2416
1552-5414
DOI:10.1177/0891241687161005