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DOING ETHNOGRAPHY: Reflections on Finding Your Way
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This article is published in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.The article was published on 1999-12-01. It has received 507 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ethnography.read more
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Strategies for Gaining Access to Organisations and Informants in Qualitative Studies.
Andrew K. Shenton,Susan Hayter +1 more
TL;DR: A range of strategies that may be adopted by the investigator in securing entry into a particular organisation and ensuring that individuals associated with it will serve as informants are highlighted in this paper.
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Travelling to the ancestral homelands: the aspirations and experiences of a UK Caribbean community.
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnographic study of the Caribbean community of Moss Side, Manchester (UK) was conducted to reveal, interpret and analyse the personal meanings which members of the community attach to visiting the ancestral homeland in the Caribbean.
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Ideal Selves as Resources for the Situated Practice of Identity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider what it means to frame identity construction as a situated communicative practice that draws on ideal selves, normative expectations about whom one should be, and leveraged the value of moderation to construct identities that achieved both ideals.
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Reflexivity: A challenge for the researcher as practitioner?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on what it means to have a dual identity as a practitioner and a researcher within an ethnographic research study in the context of a hospice, and discuss moments when they experienced the tension between the roles of researcher and practitioner during fieldwork.
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Rethinking Race and Power in Design-Based Research: Reflections from the Field
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on how race and power mediate relationships between researchers and communities in ways that significantly shape the process of research, and they use the notion of politicized trust as a conceptual lens to explore how political and racial solidarity was established, contested, and negotiated throughout the course of the design process.
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Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
TL;DR: "Asylums" is an analysis of life in 'total institutions' - closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals that focuses on the relationship between the inmate and the institution.
Asylums :essays on the social situation of mental patients andother inmates
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the relationship between the inmate and the institution, how the setting affects the person, and how the person can deal with life on the inside.
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The Urban Villagers: Group And Class In The Life Of Italian-Americans
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French Canada in transition
TL;DR: French Canada in Transition as mentioned in this paper is a landmark study of the impact of rapid industrialization on small French Canadian communities, and it remains one of the most widely cited works of Canadian Sociology.