PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION

PART ONE ETHNOGRAPHY AND CULTURE = 1 Chapter One Ethnography and Culture = 3 Culture = 5 Making Cultural Inferences = 10 Chapter Two Ethnography for What? = 13 Understanding the Human Species = 13 Ethnography in the Service of Humankind = 16 Ethical Principles = 20 Chapter Three The Ethnographic Research Cycle = 26 Selecting an Ethnographic Project = 28 Asking Ethnographic Questions = 31 Collecting Ethnographic Data = 33 Making an Ethnographic Record = 33 Analyzing Ethnographic Data = 33 Writing an Ethnography = 34 PART TWO THE DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SEQUENCE = 37 Step One Locating a Social Situation = 39 Social Situations = 39 Selection Criteria = 45 Step Two Doing Participant Observation = 53 Ordinary Participant versus Participant Observer = 53 Types of Participation = 58 Step Three Making an Ethnographic Record = 63 The Ethnographic Record and Language Use = 63 Kinds of Fieldnotes = 69 Step Four Making Descriptive Observations = 73 The Ethnographic Inquiry Unit = 73 Kinds of Descriptive Observations = 76 Descriptive Question Matrix = 80 Step Five Making a Domain Analysis = 85 Ethnographic Analysis = 85 Sulture Domains = 88 Steps in Making a Domain Analysis = 91 Step Six Making Focused Observations = 100 Selecting an Ethnographic Focus = 101 Focused Observations = 107 Step Seven Making a Taxonomic Analysis = 112 Taxonomy = 112 Taxonomic Analysis = 116 Step Eight Making Selected Observations = 122 Interviews and Participant Observation = 123 Contrast Questions = 125 Selective Observations = 128 Step Nine Making a Componential Analysis = 130 Componential Analysis = 131 Strategies for Making a Theme Analysis = 133 Step Ten Discovering Cultural Themes = 140 Cultural Themes = 140 Strategies for Making a Theme Analysis = 144 Step Eleven Taking a Cultural Inventory = 155 Make a List of Cultural Domans = 156 Make a List of Analyzed Domains = 156 Collect Sketch Maps = 157 Make a List of Themes = 157 Inventory Examples = 157 Identify Organizing Domains = 158 Make an Index of Table of Contents = 158 Inventory Miscellaneous Data = 158 Additional Research Possibilities = 159 Step Twelve Writing an Ethnography = 160 The Translation Process = 161 Steps in Writing an Ethnography = 168 Appendix A The Developmental Research Sequence Method = 175 Appendix B Developmental Research Sequence Writing Tasks = 180 Bibliography = 183 Index = 189

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