PDF-(BOOS)-Ethnography: A Way of Seeing

Harry Wolcott one of anthropologys leading writers on ethnographic methods here addresses the nature of the ethnographic enterprise itself Tracing its development from its disciplinary origins in sociology and anthropology he helps the reader understand what is distinctive about ethnography and what it means to conduct research in the ethnographic tradition In this engaging thoughtprovoking book he distinguishes ethnography as more than just a set of field methods and practices separating it from many related qualitative research traditions as a way of seeing through the lens of culture For both beginning and experienced ethnographers in a wide range of disciplines Wolcotts book will provide important ideas for improving research practice. An information session. Davide Nicolini. What are we going to talk about?. What is ethnography?. The stages of an ethnographic project. Is it for me? A conversation with two people who are doing it for a PhD. An information session. Davide Nicolini. What are we going to talk about?. What is ethnography?. The stages of an ethnographic project. Is it for me? A conversation with two people who are doing it for a PhD. ?. Sarah Pink. Loughborough. University. s. .pink@lboro.ac.uk. . What is Sensory Ethnography?. . . A re-thinking of ethnographic methods with attention to sensory perception, experience and categories (not simply ethnographic research about the senses). Ethnographic Encounters Project. Dr Lisa . Bernasek (with thanks to Dr Heidi . Armbruster). l.bernasek@soton.ac.uk. . Objectives and overview. This session will provide . an introduction to ethnographic . 1 ETHNOGRAPHY MitchellDuneier  Thispaperdescribesasimplestrategyfordoingmorereliable ethnography:afterfieldworkhascommenced,investigatorscanuse thoughtexperimentstorecognizeinconvenientphenomena.Two Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda. GESIS . – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences. Data Archive for the Social Sciences. Unter . Sachsenhausen 6 -. 8, . 50667 . Köln. Germany . katharina.kinder-kurlanda@gesis.org. How do you design a tool for use in situations that are completely new to you?. Build an information systems for intensive care units …. But you’re not a health-care professional. … in a foreign country. post graduate research student . WELS . emily.dowdeswell@open.ac.uk.  . narrative. (1) a story or a description of an event. (2) a particular way of explaining or understanding events. cambridge dictionary. Dr. Farhat Moazam has written a wonderful book, based on her extraordinary first-hand study.... [S]he is an exceptionally gifted and evocative writer. Her book not only has the attributes of a superb piece of intellectual work, but it has literary artistic merit. --Renee C. Fox, Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences at the University of PennsylvaniaThis is an ethnographic study of live, related kidney donation in Pakistan, based on Farhat Moazam\'s participant-observer research conducted at a public hospital. Her narrative is both a thick description of renal transplant cases and the cultural, ethical, and family conflicts that accompany them, and an object lesson in comparative bioethics. In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death. Recently, they have been joined at the bedside by a new group of professional experts, bioethicists, whose presence raises a host of urgent questions. How has bioethics evolved into a legitimate specialty? When is such expertise necessary? How do bioethicists make their decisions? And whose interests do they serve?Renowned sociologist Charles L. Bosk has been observing medical care for thirty-five years. In What Would You Do? he brings his extensive experience to bear on these questions while reflecting on the ethical dilemmas that his own ethnographic research among surgeons and genetic counselors has provoked. Bosk considers whether the consent given to ethnographers by their subjects can ever be fully voluntary and informed. He questions whether promises of confidentiality and anonymity can or should be made. And he wonders if social scientists overestimate the benefits of their work while downplaying the risks.Vital for practitioners of both the newly prominent field of bioethics and the long-established craft of ethnography, What Would You Do? will also engross anyone concerned with how our society addresses difficult health care issues. Ethnography is an increasingly important research method in the private sector, yet ethnographic literature continues to focus on an academic audience. Sam Ladner fills the gap by advancing rigorous ethnographic practice that is tailored to corporate settings where colleagues are not steeped in social theory, research time lines may be days rather than months or years, and research sponsors expect actionable outcomes and recommendations. Ladner provides step-by-step guidance at every turn--covering core methods, research design, using the latest mobile and digital technologies, project and client management, ethics, reporting, and translating your findings into business strategies. This book is the perfect resource for private-sector researchers, designers, and managers seeking robust ethnographic tools or academic researchers hoping to conduct research in corporate settings. More information on the book is available at http://www.practicalethnography.com/. This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway. But more than an ethnography on the road, it is an anthropology of the road. Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that includes houses, urban architecture and vehicles. Complex socio-political phenomena such as EU border security, nationalist politics, post-Cold War capitalism and financial crises all leave their mark in the concrete. This book explores anew classical anthropological and sociological categories of analysis in direct reference to infrastructure, providing unique insights into the political and cultural processes that took place across Europe after the Cold War. More specifically, it sheds light on political and economic relationships in the Balkans during the socialist post-Cold War period, focusing especially on Albania, one of the most under-researched countries in the region. In Placing Outer Space Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Mars Desert Research Station and a NASA research center to discuss ways scientists experience and map Mars. At a Chilean observatory and in MIT\'s labs she describes how they discover exoplanets and envision what it would be like to inhabit them. Today’s planetary science reveals the universe as densely inhabited by evocative worlds, which in turn tells us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the universe. silvima@ifi.uio.no. IN4340 – Engaged Qualitative Research Methods. 03.10.2022. Overview. Ethnography: method and conduct. Doing ethnographic work. An . example: . doing ethnography on India’s . social protection .