Based on the authors’ ethnographies in fields of taiji, ballet, and yoga, this article outlines reflects theoretical empirical scope what we mean by “ethnomethodological ethnography.” Ethnomethodology Conversation Analysis (EM/CA) have been juxtaposed pit against various forms ethnography vice versa—for example, criticizing underpinnings ethnographies, viewing EM/CA as a very limited micro-soci...

Contemporary studies on ethnography chiefly focus on the formation of ethnography, the relationship between researchers and research objects, the role orientation of researchers and research objects. Especially, the postmodern reflections on ethnography urge anthropologists to recognize ethnography again. Seldom do studies on ethnography focus on the audience. However, the audience of ethnograp...

An Afrikaans woman minister of the Word: en route with being reformedAuto-ethnography, as developed by Caroline Ellis, allows this author to tell her story an ordained Word in Reformed tradition South Africa, working within a variety cultures and ecumenical relationships. After “auto-ethnography” is explained methodological point departure, author, firstly, describes views on womanhood culture ...

This article describes an unexpected methodological shift made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic during doctoral research, and exemplifies reflexivity action whilst negotiating my complex positionality as both a researcher social worker. The first UK national lockdown was announced after I had conducted 3 months of ethnographic data collection local authority adult work team, thus halting re...

Ethnography is the study of social interactions, behaviours, and perceptions that occur within groups, teams, organisations, and communities. Its roots canbe traced back to anthropological studies of small, rural (andoften remote) societies thatwereundertaken in the early 1900s, when researchers such as Bronislaw Malinowski and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown participated in these societies over long pe...

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a multifaceted ability that helps us to sense, understand, value, and effectively apply the power of emotions as source information, trust, creativity, influence (Goleman, 2006; Salovey, Caruso, & Cherkasskiy, 2011). The five components (self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, motivation, social skill) embedded within EQ may work solely or collectively indiv...

In this paper I focus on a distinctive kind of sociological ethnography which is particularly, though not exclusively, adopted in applied research. It has been proposed that this branch of ethnography be referred to as focused ethnography. Focused ethnography shall be delineated within the context of other common conceptions of what may be called conventional ethnography. However, rather than b...