Participant ObservationWaveland Press, 2016 M02 17 - 195 pages Spradley should be read by anyone who wants to gain a true understanding of the process of participant observation. This text is a follow-up to his ethnographic research handbook, The Ethnographic Interview, and guides readers through the technique of participant observation to research ethnography and culture. Spradley shows how to analyze collected data and to write an ethnography. The appendices include research questions and writing tasks. |
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activities actors artifacts beginning ethnographer behavior Brady’s Bar check-out counter cocktail waitress complex componential analysis contrast questions cover term cultural categories cultural domains cultural knowledge cultural meaning cultural rules cultural scene D.R.S. Method describe descriptive observations dimensions of contrast domain analysis ethnog ethnographic description ethnographic focus ethnographic interviews ethnographic questions ethnographic record ethnographic research example experience feel fieldnotes fieldwork flea market focused observations goals grand jury grand tour identify important included terms informants investigation involve jail language look Macalester College Marshall County mini-tour objects ordinary participant participant observation patterns person principle role selective observations semantic relationship single social situation skid row social science society specific stages in shopping statements Step strategies structural questions symbolic interactionism tacit task Tausug taxonomic analysis taxonomy things tion tramps types understand writing an ethnography