Use Of Ethnography Research Articles

Ethnography and Consultee-Centered Consultation: Perfectly Aligned

Consultee-Centered Consultation (CCC) is built upon the use of a constructivist, interactive approach to support conceptual change in consultees. Constructivism is foundational in ethnographic traditions as well and it focuses on understanding socially constructed meaning-making in cultural groups. Given the importance of constructivism in both traditions there is a natural alignment in the use of ethnography to study CCC. This paper illustrates unique contributions ethnography can make to explain and describe the application of CCC, from the social process of problem conceptualization to broadening our understanding of how underserved parents can be engaged as successful consultees. Additionally, it examines how ethnography can advance our theoretical knowledge of the CCC process. The text of four published studies that used ethnography to study CCC were scrutinized. Every article articulated how the ethnographic method was used to pose a research question, present a basis for the research strategy, and examine the studies’ findings.

Using ethnography and assemblage theory in political geography

AbstractWhile the focus on the ‘everyday’ in qualitative human geography has greatly increased the need for, and relevance of, ethnographic methods, Megoran argued that this is particularly true for political geography as it has the potential to challenge its focus on elite discourse, allowing researchers to bring forward multiple voices to investigate the becoming of political events. More recently, assemblage theory has gained traction in political geography, not only because of its capability to include the role of the material and the affective, but also revealing the links between micro‐ and macro‐politics by showing how agency emerges out of complex relations. In the first part of this paper, we present an overview of the recent uses of ethnography in political geography that have not embraced assemblage. Second, we explore the theoretical conceptualisations of, and opportunities provided by, an assemblage approach. Third, we go through the use of assemblage ethnographies in political geography, with a particular focus on Pooya's experience of research with Iranians in London. In this, he embraced a variety of ethnographic approaches, including ‘auto‐ethnography’, ‘netnographies’, ‘participant sensation’, in combination with observations, participatory workshops and activism. Showing the role of ethnography as a qualitative tool for political geographers to interrogate discursive social constructions, we argue that it holds even more promise for analysing and intervening in the emergent politics of socio‐material‐affective assemblages.

Audience Readings and Meaning Negotiation in the Film Viewing Space: An Ethnographic Study of Nollywood’s Viewing Center Audiences

This research aims to investigate the social experiences of Nigerian film audiences in viewing centers to examine the possibility that social experiences are a potent influencer of the meaning construction process in the film viewing space. This study was conducted among other existing studies of the Nigerian film audience and it took on a performative approach. It involved the use of ethnography and unstructured interviews. The study examined Nollywood viewing center audiences during their shared practice of film viewing. Observing these audiences revealed several ways in which audiences negotiate meanings within the viewing center space from film texts based on their social identity and actual social experiences. It majorly revealed that viewers develop interpersonal understanding of each other’s similar relevant social situations through self-identification and then use this understanding in the interpretive process of meaning production.

Theological Ethnography and World Christianity: A Response

ABSTRACT Over the past decade, the use of ethnography in theology has grown significantly, as this special issue of the Journal of World Christianity shows. Then, weaving these threads together, I comment on how theological ethnography’s disruptive potential for theology and church doctrine, for decentering authority structures, and for displaying the way theology and ethics are entailed as integral to fieldwork, and not as an appendage or mere entailment. Conceiving of “ethnography as theology and ethics” shifts the question from ethnography as method “borrowed” for use in theological work to ethnography as fully theological and even an enactment of the ethics of discipleship. This offers a possible path for rapprochement between social scientific and theological approaches to research in religion that, in their enactment, “chime in” with God’s work of loving the world.

ІДЕЇ Т. Д. ДЕМ’ЯНЮК ЩОДО ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ПЕДАГОГІКИ НАРОДОЗНАВСТВА У НАЦІОНАЛЬНО-ПАТРІОТИЧНОМУ ВИХОВАННІ МОЛОДШИХ ШКОЛЯРІВ


 
 
 The article is devoted to the analysis of the creative inheritance of T. D. Demianiuk on the use of ethnography in the national-patriotic education of junior students. Her main works are characterized in the article, among them: “Education of the spirituality of students of the comprehensive school by means of ethnography”; “The use of folk pedagogical deontology in the creation of a national education system”; “Calendar-ritual holidays at school: Part 1. Winter cycle”; “Calendar- ritual holidays at school: Part 2. Spring cycle”; “The revival of folk traditions. Part 3. Summer cycle of calendar and ritual holidays”; “Celebration of calendar and ritual holidays in modern school. Part 4. Autumn cycle”; “The content and methodology of ethnographic work in modern school: ethnographic work in extracurricular activity” and others Based on the analysis of the pedagogical ideas of T. D. Demianiuk and the analysis of the educational system of elementary school teachers in Rivne region, organized according to her ideas, the basic means of pedagogy of ethnography are distinguished and characterized. All of them can help to bring up a decent citizen of the country and prepare future teachers to use effectively of pedagogy of ethnology in the national-patriotic education of junior students.
 
 

Ethnographic mosaic approach for health and rehabilitation practitioners: an ethno-radiographic perspective

This methodological commentary focuses on the use of ethnography for health and rehabilitation practitioners. In recent years, ethnography has become a methodology of choice amongst diagnostic radiography researchers at uncovering phenomena pertinent to the clinical setting. This paper adds to the evidence base by providing not only a methodology account from two experienced researchers, but also offers a paradigmatic approach to ethnography that incorporates qualitative and quantitative approaches. It details an alternate ideological discourse in alignment with the role of a diagnostic radiographer, which can be replicated in other disciplines and thus offering an array of empirical opportunity for prospective health and rehabilitation practitioners. IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION This paper provides an introduction into the use of ethnography for health and rehabilitation practitioners. The authors reflect on the value of ethnography in order to satisfy a researcher’s aims and objectives. The authors provide an “umbrella strategy” that can be used by other prospective health and rehabilitation researchers. It is argued here that this methodology offers an alternate strategy of uncovering new ideas and research data.

Ethnographic studies in international human resource management: Types and usefulness

This article provides a first conceptual discussion of the usefulness of ethnography for International Human Resource Management. In line with its original anthropological meaning, ethnography is understood as a multi-paradigmatic mindset involving five interrelated strands, all of which have the potential to contribute to International Human Resource Management studies. Structural-functionalist ethnography enables deep comparison and can thus contribute, for instance, to meeting the structural and institutional integration challenges of International Human Resource Management. Interpretive ethnography sheds light onto the hidden realities of International Human Resource Management and can thus help, for example, to acknowledge the diversity of employee and stakeholder experiences. Critical, postmodern, and postcolonial ethnography reveal the power-inequalities associated with diverse frameworks, practices, and work experiences in a global context. They can thus help overcome the inherent power-inequalities of International Human Resource Management and might utilize previously marginalized knowledge for the development of alternative International Human Resource Management strategies and practices. Yet, leveraging the full potential of ethnography for International Human Resource Management studies requires International Human Resource Management scholars not to borrow pre-selected ethnographic approaches, such as interpretive ethnography, from related disciplines, such as International Business and Cross-Cultural Management, because these might not fit the specific needs of International Human Resource Management. For facilitating this goal, this article provides a first multi-paradigmatic discussion of the development and principles of ethnography in anthropology, and its present and potential contributions to International Human Resource Management studies. It is not a guide of how to do ethnography, but a roadmap enabling future International Human Resource Management researchers to choose their ethnographic research strategy consciously, reflexively, and as their research interest demands for.

Dance Floor Divas: Fieldwork, Fabulating and Fathoming in Queer Bangalore

Tracing his encounters with one particular song during fieldwork on queer nightlife in Bangalore, the author argues for the usefulness of ethnography as a critical method for studying dance and other modes of fun, play and pleasure in South Asia. He argues that ethnography’s many modes (co-performance, interview, observation, auto-ethnography) evidence how expressive practices integrate into the multiple strata of everyday life and political-economy, and how these cultural expressions facilitate inventions of new selves and worlds. While popular, improvised and social dances are challenging to study given their ephemerality, ethnography deepens our understanding of them and allows us to engage in creative dialogue in fieldwork.

O uso de grupos focais na pesquisa etnográfica com crianças

Partindo de experiências empíricas de pesquisa, o presente trabalho visa problematizar algumas questões metodológicas na pesquisa etnográfica com crianças. Destacaremos o uso da etnografia como metodologia principal, sobretudo quando se tem a possibilidade de realização de uma pesquisa prolongada, mas nos deteremos principalmente no uso da técnica dos grupos focais. O grupo focal pode auxiliar a etnografia em pesquisas menos prolongadas e com restrição orçamentária. A partir de experiências do Grupo de Pesquisa CRIAS – Criança, Sociedade e Cultura, da Universidade Federal da Paraíba, buscamos apresentar as vantagens e os limites da utilização dessa técnica de pesquisa que ainda é pouco explorada pelas ciências sociais e humanas e pelos estudos da infância.

The global/local tension in the history of anthropology

AbstractIn the early days of anthropology as a discipline in the nineteenth century, evolutionism and diffusionism supplied anthropologists with ‘global’ visions. Anthropologists have always been involved with all-encompassing cosmopolitan notions such as humankind and culture. Many have thus endeavoured to explain the world as a whole, and how humans have developed in different historical moments. In the 1980s and 1990s, when the new label ‘globalization’ generated a field of scholarly preoccupations, anthropologists started to contribute to this growing body of literature. Their most valuable contributions are related to the tensions between local and global forces, and between forces of heterogeneity and homogeneity, as well as to the use of ethnography as a methodological tool. Anthropologists have borrowed notions from other related disciplines such as sociology, history, and geography. This paper situates the anthropological production on ‘the global’ within this diverse history of borrowings, internal disciplinary debates, and wider historical junctures.

LEGAL REGULATIONS OF THE PUBLIC POLICY OF WOMEN AND GENDER EQUALITY

The investigation is located in the city of Bogo- tá. The interest is focused on developing a critical contrast and facing the process of legal normative trajectory of the public policy of women and gender equity-PPMEG in Bogotá, in the period 2005-2019. Methodologically it is carried out from a qualitative approach and making use of ethnography, where an exploration of the regulations around gender equity is carried out. Subsequently, information was collected regarding the subject, which focuses on women. Through the article different points of view are known from the legal and from some referring authors that enrich the reader’s knowledge and document a normative process in the city of Bogotá and that involves women and their rights in this way reveals the problems that women face on a day-to-day basis due to their gender and the inequality of employment opportunities that still prevail even with these gender equity policies. As expected results of the research on gender equity in Bogotá and regulatory policies, it is possible to conclude that there is little interest on the part of citizens to know the existing regulations especially on the issue of equity there can be seen that in mostly women are the most worried about following this issue.

LEGAL REGULATIONS OF THE PUBLIC POLICY OF WOMEN AND GENDER EQUALITY

The investigation is located in the city of Bogo- tá. The interest is focused on developing a critical contrast and facing the process of legal normative trajectory of the public policy of women and gender equity-PPMEG in Bogotá, in the period 2005-2019. Methodologically it is carried out from a qualitative approach and making use of ethnography, where an exploration of the regulations around gender equity is carried out. Subsequently, information was collected regarding the subject, which focuses on women. Through the article different points of view are known from the legal and from some referring authors that enrich the reader’s knowledge and document a normative process in the city of Bogotá and that involves women and their rights in this way reveals the problems that women face on a day-to-day basis due to their gender and the inequality of employment opportunities that still prevail even with these gender equity policies. As expected results of the research on gender equity in Bogotá and regulatory policies, it is possible to conclude that there is little interest on the part of citizens to know the existing regulations especially on the issue of equity there can be seen that in mostly women are the most worried about following this issue.

N’ku Ifweln’uhu: etnografía en co-labor y la producción colectiva de la educación bilingüe intercultural desde la lengua y la cultura wichi (Chaco, Argentina)

Enmarcado en la investigación en co-labor (Ballena & Unamuno, 2017b; Leiva, 2011; Lassiter, 2005; Rappaport, 2008), este estudio se centra en el análisis de los registros etnográficos que llevamos a cabo en el marco de la elaboración del libro escolar «N’ku Ifweln’uhu» (Mi madre me enseñó) destinado a niños wichi de nivel inicial y primario. En un inicio, me propongo problematizar la investigación en contexto indígena en Argentina, especialmente en relación con el lugar de los indígenas en los procesos de investigación, incluyendo aspectos clave como la autoría y los beneficios directos e indirectos de dichos procesos. Luego, presentaré el contexto en donde trabajamos para poder explicar el recorrido hecho en la producción del citado material, centrándome principalmente en el uso de la etnografía para recuperar los saberes tradicionales de las madres wichi con el fin de hacerlos dialogar con los saberes escolares occidentales. El resultado del análisis de estos registros me permitirá, finalmente, proponer algunas conclusiones sobre la etnografía sociolingüística como espacio y práctica de producción de conocimientos colectivos en el campo de la educación bilingüe e intercultural.

Etnografia e outras metodologias de pesquisa participativa com crianças: considerações a partir de um jogo de cartas

<p>Este artigo propõe um debate sobre o uso da etnografia e de outras metodologias participativas na condução de pesquisas com crianças, com base em questões que compõem um jogo de cartas. Fazer pesquisa com a participação de crianças implica encarar os desafios éticos, teóricos e metodológicos que pesquisadores enfrentam quando se dispõem a ouvir as crianças e a considerar seus pontos de vista e suas ideias. Tendo como ponto de partida essas questões, propomos um jogo de cartas colaborativo no qual os caminhos são definidos quando as chamadas “cartas-problemas” são apresentadas, seguidas pelas “cartas-palavras”, que trazem “problemas” a serem enfrentados nas investigações com crianças. Os problemas sugeridos pelo jogo incluem a submissão das pesquisas aos comitês de ética, os assentimentos e os consentimentos e o reconhecimento do nosso adultocentrismo enquanto pesquisadores e propositores dos temas de pesquisas. Por fim, propomos abordar o adultocentrismo, um ponto que pode afetar a condução, análise e divulgação das pesquisas com crianças.</p>

Entering the ethnographic mind: A grounded theory of using ethnography in psychological research

ABSTRACT Ethnography has flourished in small pockets of psychological researchers but is not widely embraced in psychology. Increased calls for qualitative methods have taken place recently in psychology, and at times ethnography is grouped into this without proper attention to the epistemological stance and approach of ethnographic research. Our purpose was to illuminate the use of ethnography in psychological research. We used a grounded theory approach to individually interview researchers (N = 14) who use ethnography, ethnographically informed methods, or auto-ethnography across subdisciplines. Analyses led to the identification of seven categories: ● doing ethnography in psychological research; ● training or a lack thereof; ● positioning oneself as a researcher between fields; ● centering self, site, and context; ● a different model of causality; ● what psychologists need to know to embrace ethnography: unsaid and unwritten rules; and ● writing ethnography: juggling legitimacy, rigor, and publication rates. Results identify the value of integrating ethnography as a means of knowing into psychological science. We discuss this with respect to value of ethnography for furthering cultural exploration in psychology and comment on training environments for ethnography in psychology.

Drumming and dancing: creative movement for Convention refugee youth in a physical activity space

ABSTRACTConvention refugees are individuals who have fled their home countries due to a substantiated fear of persecution. As a consequence, many young Convention refugees are disconnected from their environment as they enter schools and communities and are often misunderstood in their new country due to cultural barriers. Given the universality of human movement, the physical activity setting can be an important space through which acculturation can be fostered. The purpose of this ethnographic study was to capture the nuances and experiences of 17 Convention refugees engaged in a community program. Significant moments, at the point of data saturation, were validated through observations, ethnographic interviews, artifacts and participant observations. The process of data analysis produced four themes: (a) embodied space (b) proxemics, (c) collective sharing (d) rhythm. Through triangulation, the appearances of creative movements were captured in tandem with rhythm, thus recording individual expressions within a collective space [Paulson, S. (2011). The use of ethnography and narrative interviews in a study of ‘cultures of dance’. Journal of health psychology, 16(1), 148–157]. The exploration of cultural and situational frames through drumming and movement can attempt to build an emotional bridge to support acculturation. Creative movement is a culturally relevant way to engage individuals in dialogue by asking them to tell us what they know to be moments of truth [Oliver, K. L. (1998). A journey into narrative analysis: A methodology for discovering meanings. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 17, 244–259]. This collective sharing lends itself to physical activity environments where there are opportunities to foster creativity, encourage intersectional identity, and support Convention refugee acculturation.

The use of ethnography in computer science research: a systematic literature review

Ethnography is a qualitative research method frequently used in social science. We performed a Systematic Literature Review to know better its use in Computer Science research. We selected 273 papers published at ACM Digital Library in 2015 and 2016, and extracted information about their research goals, characteristics of the samples, investigation period, data collection and data analysis procedures. The main contribution of this work is to provide researchers with a pragmatic understanding of the method, presenting references for specific situations such as small samples, studies that applied specific types of ethnography or used research instruments different from observation and interview.

Ethnography and evaluation: temporalities of complex systems and methodological complexity

In public health there is increased focus on evaluating ‘complex’ interventions for health improvement, examining how their multiple components interact dynamically with the contextual system in which they are delivered. Amid this complexity framing are calls for methodologies that can facilitate contextual understanding as part of the evaluation process, including ethnography. However, while ethnography’s attention to ‘context’ has been recognised as valuable for evaluation, few questions have been raised about the possible tensions of aligning what are quite different expectations for knowledge making in evaluation and in ethnography. This paper introduces a special section illustrating empirical examples of conducting ethnography for and with evaluation of ‘complex’ health interventions. Central to these experiences, this paper argues, are the concepts of time and temporality through which experience, change and knowledge making are invariably structured. It considers the different expectations for time and temporality in ethnographic and evaluation research, and how the ‘long conversation’ of ethnography aids interpretation of an intervention’s interaction with the pasts, presents and possible futures of people’s health experiences. Furthermore, in understanding time not as linear and constant but experienced through a series of encounters, ethnography highlights the spaces in between action and change, vital for understanding the complex dynamics of a health intervention in context. Through temporality, this paper and the related empirical papers present an intricate exploration of the challenges and productive opportunities posed by the use of ethnography for and with evaluation.

Notas sobre el uso de la etnografía y la teoría fundamentada en ciencia política. Un análisis amplio de la participación política y el Estado en asentamientos informales de la periferia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

A la luz de los resultados obtenidos en el marco de una tesis doctoral sobre la participación política de quienes residen en asentamientos informales de la periferia de Buenos Aires (Argentina), el presente artículo reflexiona sobre la pertinencia del uso de la etnografía en la ciencia política. Desde una perspectiva innovadora que la combina con el enfoque de la teoría fundamentada, se sugiere que dicha combinación permite avanzar a la teoría en temas poco desarrollados al interior de la disciplina. Puntualmente, se hace una introducción al tema de la participación política y se describen las ventajas del enfoque propuesto. Por último, se sugiere la posibilidad de complementar la etnografía y la teoría fundamentada con otros métodos y herramientas de recolección de datos.

Ethnography, Ecclesiology, and the Ethics of Everyday Life: A Conversation with the Work of Michael Banner

This article begins by introducing recent work by Michael Banner, who advocates the use of social anthropology generally (not just the anthropology of Christianity) for the Christian ethics of everyday life. His use of ethnography in Christian theological ethics is then situated in relation to recent discussions in ecclesiology and ethnography. Situated thus, Banner’s work forms the springboard for a brief discussion of what is at stake for theological ethics in turning to ethnographic research. While some dangers are highlighted, a way forward is offered for the fruitful use of ethnographic research in this field.