Ethnography Research
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This document provides an overview of ethnography research. It defines ethnography as describing a group or culture through observation and conversation. The main purposes of ethnography are to obtain a deep understanding of people and their culture in a natural context. Data is typically collected through interviews, observations, and documents in an unstructured way. Ethnography research aims to understand human behavior in everyday contexts rather than experimental conditions. It emphasizes naturalism, understanding, discovery, and challenges assumptions. The document also outlines some advantages and disadvantages of ethnography as well as important ethical considerations around informed consent, privacy, and harm.
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Ethnography Research
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- 3. Research is the systematic process of collecting and analyzing information to increase our understanding of the phenomenon under study. It is the function of the researcher to contribute to the understanding of the phenomenon and to communicate that understanding to others.
- 4. Survey research Action research Ethnography research Evaluation research Participatory research Other various types of RESEARCH…..
- 5. “Ethnography is the art and science of describing a group or culture. the description may be of a small tribal group in an exotic land or a classroom in middle class urban..” --David M.Fetterman,1998.. Ethnography came from the Greek, Ethnos = People Graphing = writing It identifies its roots in sociology and anthropology……
- 6. Ethnography is a Social science research method.Its primary data collection method. Its mainly combined with social background.
- 7. The main purpose of ethnography is to obtain a deep understanding of people and their culture One distinguishing feature is fieldwork In ethnographic research, the context is what defines the situation and makes it what it is...
- 8. Contextual The research is carried out in the context in which the subjects normally live and work Unobtrusive The research avoid manipulating the phenomena under investigation Longitudinal The research is relatively long
- 9. Collaborative The research involves the participation of stakeholders other than the researcher Interpretative The researcher carries out interpretative analysis of the data Organic There I interaction between questions/ hypothesis and data collection/ interpretation.
- 10. People’s behavior is studied in everyday on texts,rather than under experimental conditions created by the researchers. data are gathered from a range of sources ,but observation and/or relatively conversations are usually the main ones. The approach to data collection Is Unstructured. It means that in the data collection process a detailed plan is not followed.
- 11. Naturalism – that the aim of social research is to capture the character of naturally occurring human behavior Understanding – we can understand the situation of the base human background and we not misunderstand anything to happen in the research. Discovery – Research is based on inductive or discovery based.
- 12. Data collection in ethnography research in based on mainly three types, there are- Interviews Observations Documents In ethnography research we can get data through this kinds of tasks…… Watching what happened/Listening to what is said/ asking questions in formal and informal ways
- 13. Advantages of Ethnography research One of the most valuable aspects is the depth of understanding Can challenge ‘taken for granted’ assumptions Disadvantages of Ethnography research Takes a long time Does not have much breadth It can be difficult for some to write up the findings for a journal article
- 14. We conduct the ethnography research we concern about some kind of a major ethical concerns…..those are – Informed consent Privacy Harm Exploitation
- 15. In My Mother's House: Civil War in Sri Lanka (The Ethnography of Political Violence) [Hardcover] [2011] (Author) Sharika Thiranagama
- 16. Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka (The Ethnography of Political Violence) By Alex pilen. Article Health-care system and nursing in Sri Lanka: an ethnography study. Buddika sunil saranath de silva