Essential ethnographic methods [electronic resource] : a mixed methods approach / Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte.

"Essential Ethnographic Methods introduces the fundamental, face-to-face data collection tools that ethnographers and other qualitative researchers use on a regular basis. It provides ethnographers with tools to answer the principal ethnographic questions about setting, participants, activities...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: Schensul, Jean J. (Author), LeCompte, Margaret Diane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Ethnographer's toolkit ; bk. 3.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.