HSS 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Critical Ethnography, Ethnography, Data Analysis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 3101
• Professor: Jason Steffener

Document Summary

Describing and interpreting a culture-sharing group - shared and learned patterns (values, behaviors, beliefs, and language) Typically, large culture-sharing group - entire group or a subset. Description of culture-sharing group and themes - participants views. Describing how a group works - cultural interpretation. Focused ethnography, autoethnography, critical ethnography, participatory action research, action research, realist ethnography. Knowledgeable on many aspects; time; non-traditional writing; go native ; access; sensitivity; reflexivity. Step 1: identify the problem, determine if research problem best fits ethnographic approach, best suited to: describe how a cultural group works. Step 2: themes, select themes, issues, or theories, select type of ethnography. Step 3: data collection, identify the group, find a gatekeeper! Step 4: fieldwork, gather info on context/setting where the group lives and works, respect the sensitive nature of this type of research! Step 5: analysis and end goal, describe the culture-sharing group, detailed description theme analysis cultural portrait, advocate.