The author discusses the application of the concepts of objectivity and subjectivity in ethnographic theory and research, and finds that one kind of subjectivity, that of applying a particular perspective to ethnography, is central and inevitable. Today, we acknowledge that objectivity is relative to a given perspective or preunderstanding, but the applied perspective must compete with other pe...

lnterpretivist movements in anthropology and sociology have recently merged with neo-Marxist and feminist theory to produce a unique genre of research in the field of education known as "critical ethnography." Critical ethnographers seek research accounts sensitive to the dialectical relationship between the social structural constraints on human actors and the relative autonomy of human agency...

Thomas David Barton provides an overview of practitioner ethnography, a research approach that provides practitioners with a way of exploring the culture of their workplace. He compares practitioner and traditional ethnography and looks at the pros and cons of the method.

I was pleasantly surprised to be sent this particular book to review. I was not overly familiar with the concept of photovoice – it is much better known and utilised in the USA and other parts of the world than the UK although the charity ‘PhotoVoice’ has had a presence in London since 1998. They recently (2014) launched a new website, membership scheme and brand identity – see http://www.photo...

A set of basic beliefs about others' minds and behavior, referred to as folk psychology or theory of mind, is often discussed as if it were the same the world over. Yet, certainly variation in folk psychology exists. This article compares several aspects of European American theory of mind with other cultural models, as suggested by experiments and ethnographies, with the purpose of illuminatin...

The present article discusses Ethics concept as dwell and way of dwelling, aiming to articulate it with some elements of participative research from an ethnographic matrix. Mainly, it focuses the idea of the ethical subject's autonomy, associating it with self-reflection and alterity in ethnography. Yet, it approaches the participative research in an ethnographic perspective as a praxis that in...

Just what do system administration and ethnography have in common? One might think that ethnography is about studying cultures, but in a broader sense, ethnography means “writing about and describing humans and human behavior.” For better or worse, system administration involves many human-to-human and human-to-machine interactions. Ethnographers have been studying the behavior of system admini...