Essential ethnographic methods [ a mixed methods approach

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schensul, Jean J. (Author), LeCompte, Margaret Diane (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : AltaMira Press , c2012
Edition:2nd ed
Series:Ethnographer's toolkit 3
Subjects:
Online Access:IG Publishing
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Essential data collection
  • 2. Defining and entering the field
  • 3. Recording and organizing ethnographic field data : field notes, interviews, drawings, visual documentation, and survey data
  • 4. Participant observation and informal interviewing in the field
  • 5. Additional methods for collecting exploratory data
  • 6. In-depth, open-ended exploratory interviewing
  • 7. Semistructured interviews and observations
  • 8. Focus group interviews
  • 9. Structured approaches to ethnographic data collection : surveys
  • 10. Sampling in ethnographic research
  • 11. Defining and evaluating quality in ethnographic research