The aim of this paper is to promote a greater use informal conversations in qualitative research. Although not new innovation, we posit that they are neglected innovation and method should become more widely employed. We argue these create ease communication often produce naturalistic data. While many researchers have written about the ethnography, as part participant observation, advocating an...

Sociologists understand the term ‘organization’ in very broad terms to mean any structure by which social life and behaviour are managed. The term is more narrowly understood to mean formal organizations with a bureaucratic structure. Some formal organizations process ‘clients’, like schools and police stations, where the principal purpose is the management of people and their needs. Others are...

In this article, we will analyze how built the research process of a collaborative ethnography with Stop Evictions Granada 15M Movement (SEG15M). We begin brief contextualization housing issues in Spain and SEG15M movement to explain why started co-research experience movement. Next, clarify composition, function, main purposes ‘debate groups’ our research, as well their particular differences ...

OBJECTIVE Humor and laughter are present in most of human interaction. Interactions in health care settings are no exception. Palliative care practitioners know from experience that humor and laughter are common in palliative care despite the seriousness of the care context. Research establishing the significance of humor in care of the dying is limited. METHODS Clinical ethnography conducted...

The (r)evolution of personal and collective publishing offers new tools allowing the Internet users themselves to become content creators. Along with the personal typing in weblogs a new practice for communication has emerged in the form of snapping pictures and sharing them in the web. These virtual picture galleries constructed and updated right from the field with the help of a mobile device...

Ethnographic methodologies developed in social anthropology and sociology hold considerable promise for addressing practical, problem-based research concerned with the construction site. The extended researcher-engagement characteristic of ethnography reveals rich insights, yet is infrequently used to understand how work-place realities are lived out on construction sites. Moreover studies that...

Correspondence: Amanda Henderson, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Queensland 4068, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] HENDERSON A. (2005) Journal of Advanced Nursing 52(5), 554–560 The value of integrating interpretive research approaches in the exposition of healthcare context Aim. This paper discusses the use of a nested set of methodolog...

OBJECTIVE To explore concrete approaches to socio-technical design of collaborative healthcare information systems and to design a groupware technology for collaborative clinical trial protocol writing. METHOD We conducted "quick and dirty ethnography" through semi-structured interviews, observational studies, and work artifacts analysis to understand the group work for protocol development. ...