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Ethnography: problems and prospects
Abstract
This article reviews a range of difficult issues that currently face ethnographic research, and offers some reflections on them. These issues include: how ethnographers define the spatial and temporal boundaries of what they study; how they determine the context that is appropriate for understanding it; in what senses ethnography can be—or is—virtual rather than actual; the role of interviews as a data source; the relationship between ethnography and discourse analysis; the tempting parallel with imaginative writing; and, finally, whether ethnography should have, or can avoid having, political or practical commitments of some kind, beyond its aim of producing value-relevant knowledge.
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- Authors
- Hammersley, M.
- Venue
- Ethnography and Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2006-03
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-14
- ISSN
- 1745-7823 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-7831
- OpenAlex
- W2071478337
- Cited by
- 640
- References
- 39
- FWCI
- 25.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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