A wide range of groups and organisations have been studied by this method, including traditional communities, youth gangs, religious cults, and organisations of various kinds. The typical ethnography is a holistic study and so includes a brief history, and an analysis of the terrain, the climate, and the habitat. It had its origin in social and cultural anthropology in the early twentieth century, but spread to other social science disciplines, notably sociology, during the course of that century.Įthnographers mainly use qualitative methods, though they may also employ quantitative data. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining the behavior of the participants in a given social situation and understanding the group members' own interpretation of such behavior.Īs a form of inquiry, ethnography relies heavily on participant observation-on the researcher participating in the setting or with the people being studied, at least in some marginal role, and seeking to document, in detail, patterns of social interaction and the perspectives of participants, and to understand these in their local contexts. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. ( Discuss) Proposed since August 2023.Įthnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It has been suggested that Genealogical method be merged into this article.
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