9: Ethnography and the social structure of work

Chapter 9 Ethnography and the social structure of work

نگاهی اجمالی بر اتنوگرافی انتقادی

Ethnography is a qualitative research method in which researchers study various values, beliefs and cultural meanings in a group of people or society. Critical ethnography puts more emphasis on social groups and individuals' power, prestige, authority and status (1). In ethnographic studies, researchers employing inductive logic focus on interactions between people to discover the meaning embed...

Dearborn-Detroit Michigan: Ethnography of Faith and the U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy Axis

The relationship between ethnic and faith communities in the United States and domestic forces relating to a converging and diverging social contract on the one hand, and US foreign, security and military policies in national, regional and global contexts on the other hand, constitutes the key focus of this paper and the ongoing research upon which it is based. Theories related to American ethn...

Forthcoming in Complexity We Have Met the Other and We’re All Nonlinear Ethnography as a Nonlinear Dynamic System

Just as complexity changes notions of what “science” is, ethnography offers an alternative model for “social science.” Particularly striking for ethnography is the family resemblance between its social research tradition and complex adaptive systems. In fact, if ethnography is seen as a CAS, several key issues appear in a new light. In this article, ethnographic research is looked at in terms o...

Ethnography of Development Sociology

Development sociology as a distinct area of study gained prominence in the post-world war era with the evolving interest in political and economic progression of the post-colonial world. The emerging discipline from the mainstream sociology have been particularly interested in development paths and strategies adopted in nations in the various regions of the world with greater emphasis in develo...