Participant observation

Author(s)

• Spradley, James P.

Bibliographic Information

Participant observation

James P. Spradley

Wadsworth Thomson Learning, c1980

Note

Bibliography: p. 183-188

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This text is a follow up to Spradley's earlier ethographic research handbook, The Ethnographic Interview, and guides students through the technique of participant observation to research ethnography and culture. Spradley also teaches students how to analyze the data they collect, and write an ethnography. The appendices include research questions and writing tasks.

Table of Contents

Part I. Ethnography and Culture Ethnography and Culture: Ethnography for What? The Ethnographic Research Cycle. Part II. The Developmental Research Sequence: Locating a Social Situation. Doing Participant Observation. Making an Ethnographic Record. Making Descriptive Observations. Making a Domain Analysis. Making Focused Observations. Making a Taxonomic Analysis. Making Selected Observations. Making a Componential Analysis: Discovering Cultural Themes. Taking a Cultural Inventory. Writing an Ethography. Appendices. The Developmental Research Sequence Method. Developmental Research Sequence Writing Tasks. Bibliography. Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA64112234
• ISBN:
  • 0030445019
• LCCN: 79017917
• Country Code: at
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Victoria, Australia]
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 195 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN346.4
  • DC : 301.2/07/23
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Participant observation