Zusammenfassung: Ethnographische Studien präsentieren typischerweise beeindruckende Datenmengen, jedoch oft ohne dabei einen Beitrag zu disziplinären, theoretischen oder substanziellen Problemen zu leisten. Niklas Luhmann wird nicht als qualitativer Sozialforscher angesehen, seine Gesellschaftstheorie kann aber helfen, die soziologische Relevanz der Ethnographie zu steigern. Mit Blick auf diese...

Background This intervention study aimed to enhance patient safety attitudes through the design of an in situ simulation program based on a needs analysis involving thematic analysis of patient safety data and short-term ethnography. The study took place at an Emergency Department (ED) in the Central Region of Denmark. Research suggests that poor handover communication can increase the likeliho...

This paper reports a cognitive ethnography study on the communication process of an Agile software development team in an industry. The aim of the study is to understand how physical artefacts influence the construction of communications during collaboration. We used a stimulus and response method to uncover correlation patterns of the physical artefact-communication during specific contexts of...

In this paper I focus on a distinctive kind of sociological ethnography which is particularly, though not exclusively, adopted in applied research. It has been proposed that this branch of ethnography be referred to as focused ethnography. Focused ethnography shall be delineated within the context of other common conceptions of what may be called conventional ethnography. However, rather than b...

observation which I label peopled ethnography. I contrast this to two alternative ethnographic approaches, the personal ethnography and the postulated ethnography. In a peopled ethnography the text is neither descriptive narrative nor conceptual theory; rather, the understanding of the setting and its theoretical implications are grounded in a set of detailed vignettes, based on field notes, in...