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This book describes the principles and methods of ethnography used by researchers (particularly nursing researchers) who examine issues related to health and illness. The authors describe both the processes related to gaining access to the “field” as well as how to: - Conduct ethnographic research in health settings - Analyze and interpret the data you collect from your field work - Make ethical decisions related to the role of being an ethnographer in a health setting, and - Put your ideas into writing so that you can create an ethnographic research proposal Written at a level appropriate for those who have taken an undergraduate research methods course, this book will enable you to learn from people about their health and/or illness.
Now Go Do it!
Now Go Do it!
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
By now you have formulated a research question concerned with the ways a group of people behave and think. You want to learn about the everyday world of these participants and understand their views. The ethnographer goes into the field with the aim of discovery and becomes a human instrument who perceptively gathers information from people and events (Fetterman, 1989, p. 41) and then makes sense of what is seen by identifying patterns and formulating scientific explanations. Remember that you enter your place of study with an open mind to determine both consistencies and variations in ...
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