Ethnography Sample Clauses

Ethnography. Ethnography ―constitutes the exploration of culture and subculture through application of qualitative research methods designed to produce thick descriptions‖ (XxxXxxxxx, 2009, p. 164). Ethnography is, in fact, an experiential and experimental system‖. According to Xxxxxxxxxx (1998, p.291) ―an experimental system can be compared to a labyrinth whose walls, in the course of being erected, simultaneously blind and guide the experimenter. The construction principle of a labyrinth consists in that the existing walls limit the space and the direction of the walls to be added. It cannot be planned. It forces one to move by means of checking out, of groping‖. The utility of ethnography as research method is well elaborated by Xxxxxx (2003, p.187) who states that ―conceptualizing ethnography as devices that shape questions to be asked allows us to think of them as scientific research tools. Their significance lies less in that they conclude them in discursive resources they provide and the pathways they open up. Their aim, in sort, is to improve literacy, to enable people to read the world better. Some would consider this value neutral. I think it is what gives ethnography ethical charge‖. This very accurately summarizes the rationale behind the selection of the specific research method. The overall goal is to facilitate in making sense of what is out there by an open communication flow between the researcher and the researched, recognizing its limitations and contextual boundaries. Probably one of the most interesting notions connected to ethnography is that it can be both a process and an outcome, it can apply to both the methodology and to the written account of an ethnographic project. Ethnography has its roots in social anthropology, which traditionally focused on small-scale communities that were thought to share culturally specific beliefs and practices. Xxxxx and Xxxxx (1985), Xxxxx (2001), Xxxxxxxxx (1994) all describe ethnography as a generalised approach to developing concepts to understand human behaviours from insider's or native's perspective and point of view. This is particularly interesting in this research study, due to the researcher‘s close connection and relationship with the two organisations under study. Especially when it comes to qualitative research, it has been increasingly observed that that there is in fact no way of removing the observer from research in naturalistic settings (Xxxxxx and Xxxxxx 1991). Ethnographers recognise that they...