Ethnography key concepts

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Key words:

Contextualization, culture, descriptive field notes, emic perspective, etic perspective, ethnography, field diary, field jottings, field log, field notes, holistic perspective, participant observation, reflective field notes, triangulation ...

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Macro-ethnography

by Nguyễn Thị Minh Thư - Wednesday, 1 April 2015, 5:24 PM

Macro-ethnography iss the study of broadly-defined cultural groupings, such as “the English” or “New Yorkers”.

Micro-ethnography

by Nguyễn Thị Minh Thư - Wednesday, 1 April 2015, 5:24 PM

Micro-ethnography is the study of narrowly-defined cultural groupings, such as “local government GIS specialist” or members of Congress”.

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