Ethnographic Methods

A survey of qualitative and quantitative text analysis techniques.

Topics

• participant observation

• cultural domain analysis

Readings

• Goodwin, Charles (1994). "Professional Vision." American Anthropologist 96(3):606-633 [pdf]

• Flanagan, JC 1954. The critical incident technique. Pych Bull 51: 28-35. [pdf] 

Handouts

• Participant observation

• Example of analytical tool for text analysis [html]

• Ethnographic methods (video)

  • Spatial ethnography

• Cultural domain analysis

  • freelisting

  • pilesorting

• Collecting data with handheld devices

  • Gravlee, C. C., Zenk, S. N., Woods, S., Rowe, Z., & Schulz, A. J. (2006). Handheld computers for direct observation of the social and physical environment. Field Methods, 18(4), 382-397.Introduction to Grounded Theory [html]

• Borgatti. Notes on Professional Vision  

Notes

• TBA

Additional readings

• King, Gary/ Keohane, Robert O./ Verba, Sidney: Designing Social Inquiry. Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, p. 3. Princeton University Press, 1994.