Ethnography as a Research Method - a discussion agenda

Based on Bryman and Bell (2011), I prepare an agenda for discussionon Ethnography as a Research Method:

1. The nature of Ethnography and participant observation
2. Access and working roles of researchers
• A classification of participant observer roles (re: Figure 17.1 of Bryman and Bell (2011, pg. 437) and Table 17.1 in pg. 439 of Bryman and Bell (2011).)
• Key informats
• The concern ofo "going native"
3. Sampling in ethnographic research
• Convenience sampling and snowball sampling in ethnographic research
• Purpose sampling in ethnographic research
• Theoretical sampling in ethnographic research
• Sampling on people and things
4. Using field notes
5. The ending phase of ethnographic fieldwork
6. On feminist ethnography
7. On visual ethnography

Lecture notes

Note 2

Reference
Bryman, A. and Bell, E. (2011) "Chapter 17: Ethnography and participant observation", Business Research Methods, Oxford University Press.