Lecture 5
ARM
Ethnography: the study of people in their own tie and space, in their own everyday lives.
Goals
- Its about balancing act between theory and the feld
- Is about understanding practces in specifc conteet
- Is analytcal and interpretve work done with the help of theory tthrough sensitiing
concepts)
A range of iethods or tools for eeploring the social world, resultng in a thick descripton.
Going natve.
An ethnographer is: an observer, interviewer, patern-fnder, analyst, writer.
It’s:
- Practce-based
- Eiic perspectve
- Understand, not eeplain
- Iiiersion
- Observatons, feld notes
- Interviews, docuients
- Analysis
Observatonal diiensions tppradley, Reeves)
- ppace: physical layout
- Actor: range of people involved
- Actvity: set of related acts
- Object: physical things present
- Act: single acton by individual
- Event: soiething out of the ordinary
- Tiie: sequencing of events occurring
- Goal: things that people are trying to accoiplish
- Feeling: eiotons felt and eepressed
Two ioveients: you iiierse yourself but you iove away when u analyse it. It’s a
balancing act.
Three things which are iiportant in making sense of the theory in observaton
1. Triangulaton
a. Data
b. Methodological
c. Investgator
d. Zooiing in and out
2. Inducton
a. Practces, observaton
ARM
Ethnography: the study of people in their own tie and space, in their own everyday lives.
Goals
- Its about balancing act between theory and the feld
- Is about understanding practces in specifc conteet
- Is analytcal and interpretve work done with the help of theory tthrough sensitiing
concepts)
A range of iethods or tools for eeploring the social world, resultng in a thick descripton.
Going natve.
An ethnographer is: an observer, interviewer, patern-fnder, analyst, writer.
It’s:
- Practce-based
- Eiic perspectve
- Understand, not eeplain
- Iiiersion
- Observatons, feld notes
- Interviews, docuients
- Analysis
Observatonal diiensions tppradley, Reeves)
- ppace: physical layout
- Actor: range of people involved
- Actvity: set of related acts
- Object: physical things present
- Act: single acton by individual
- Event: soiething out of the ordinary
- Tiie: sequencing of events occurring
- Goal: things that people are trying to accoiplish
- Feeling: eiotons felt and eepressed
Two ioveients: you iiierse yourself but you iove away when u analyse it. It’s a
balancing act.
Three things which are iiportant in making sense of the theory in observaton
1. Triangulaton
a. Data
b. Methodological
c. Investgator
d. Zooiing in and out
2. Inducton
a. Practces, observaton
