Essential ethnographic methods : a mixed methods approach

✍ Scribed by Jean J. Schensul Institute for Community Research, Margaret D. LeCompte University of Colorado Boulder

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 386
• Series: Ethnographer's toolkit (2010) 3
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Essential Ethnographic Methods introduces the fundamental, face-to-face data collection tools for ethnographers and other qualitative researchers and provides detailed instruction to improve the quality and scope of data collection

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Essential data collection --
Defining and entering the field --
Recording and organizing ethnographic field data : field notes, interviews, drawings, visual documentation, and survey data --
Participant observation and informal interviewing in the field --
Additional methods for collecting exploratory data --
In-depth, open-ended exploratory interviewing --
Semistructured interviews and observations --
Focus group interviews --
Structured approaches to ethnographic data collection : surveys --
Sampling in ethnographic research --
Defining and evaluating quality in ethnographic research.