Tensions in ethnographic research

Causal Thinking and Ethnographic Research

Obtrusiveness as Strategy in Ethnographic Research

Unlocking the Iron Cage, Michael Schwalbe's 1996 ethnography of the men's movement, is in many ways a classic ethnographic account. involving almost three years of intensive participant-observation. But the study is innovative-and even daring-in its strategies for establishing textual authority. Schwalbe's claims rest primarily on his status as a movement insider andfull participant. Yet the cr...

The Role of Theory in Ethnographic Research

Research in Constructivist Frameworks Using Ethnographic Techniques

This article discusses the undertaking of research using a constructivist philosophical framework and ethnographic techniques, which can include individual interviews, focus groups, observation, and questionnaires. It begins with a broad overview of social sciences research philosophy, discussing both positivism and interpretivism, before moving on to focus on the constructivist paradigm, which...

The Role of Theory in Ethnographic Research