Ethnography Made Easy

Table of Contents

Understanding Ethnography Maureen Sheridan

1. Defining Ethnography

2. Maintaining a Naïve State of Mind as a First Hand Observer

3. Employing Ethnography

4. Identifying Bias in the Research Process

5. Summary

Thinking Like An Ethnographer Kristina Baines

1. Background and History

2. Operationalizing the Ethnographic Mindset

3. Moving Forward

Autoethnography Alia R. Tyner-Mullings

1. History of Auoethnography

2. The Structure of Autoethnographies

3. Preparing for the Autoethnography

4. Collecting Data for Your Autoethnography

5. Ethnographic Narratives

Research Ethics Alia R. Tyner-Mullings

1. Questionable Research

2. Institutional Review Board

3. Privacy and Confidentiality

Ethnographic Mapping Tom Martin

1. Mapping spaces

2. Non-spatial maps

3. Map making techniques

4. Conclusion

Collecting Data and Taking Notes Mary Gatta

1. What Are Fieldnotes?

2. Basics of Fieldnotes

3. Jottings and Notes

4. Characteristics of Field Notes

5. Templates for Fieldnotes

6. Storing Your Notes

7. Conclusion

Observations Nicole Kras

1. Types of Observations

2. Observation in Action

Sensory Ethnography Tom Martin

1. What are the ‘senses’?

2. Whose senses?

3. Sensory research topics in the world of work

4. Conclusion

Participant Observation Maureen Sheridan

1. Introduction

2. Reconciling Participation and Observation

3. The Importance of Allocating Sufficient Time

4. Communicating with Participants to Execute the Research Process

5. Avoiding Deceptiveness and Misrepresentation

6. Getting started

7. Routine versus unexpected behavior and conversations

8. Paying Attention to Repetition

9. Conclusion

Interviews Samuel Finesurrey

1. Introduction

2. Types of Interviews

3. Preparing for an Interview

4. Conducting an Interview

5. Evaluating Information from Interview

6. Preserving the Interview

Coding Camila Rivera Torres

1. What are codes?

2. How do ethnographers prepare for coding

3. The coding cycle

Glossary

References

Biographies