ETHNOGRAPHY RESEARCH PROJECT
Steps Taken While Conducting an Ethnography Research Project
Ethnography refers to the approach used to analyse and dictate the various personal experiences towards different cultures in the world. The various topics studied while doing ethnography include one’s cultural beliefs, common values and shared experiences (Maso,2001).
Ethnography process involves the analysis of the individual participating in the culture of interest as an observer while taking important considerations involved o allow a good comprehension of the cultural beliefs. However, an interview may be conducted to better understand the culture. Additionally, the cultural members may be reviewed according to their different interactions to one another, analyse their different reading methods and their choice of living. .For complete research to take place, the researchers should understand that different people may experience the same epiphanies and should combine their different personal experiences with pre-existing studies to come up with a clear and well-documented research report.
There exist different forms of ethnography which are depicted depending on various factors involved while conducting the study. Epiphanies are the most widely used form of reflection towards cultural relevance to other people (Bochner, 1984).
Native Ethnography
For this type, it refers to the particular right of an outsider to research on other peoples customs.
Reflexive Ethnography
This refers to the emotional interview results that affect the outcome of the findings of the research.
Narrative Ethnography
Narrative approach mostly depends on the take of others according to their feeling and knowledge about their culture
Personal Narratives
The research is based on the say and takes of the different researchers or authors who depict themselves as better understanding and well versed to come up with the conclusion than those other members of the culture.
Interactive Interviews
The study is depicted according to the required deep meaning of the different cultures which is based on in-depth of the layered accounts plus the member’s statements.
Community Ethnography
The review is done based on the effect of the community towards the cultivation of the various cultural beliefs and the overall social status of the people.
Writing is depicted as another way of showing the various cultural platforms. Moreover, writing provides the researcher with a therapeutic effect as it allows the author to express his or her feelings about personal experiences and feelings about the cultures. This also acts as an inquiry shortly for both the authors and the participants or readers. Nevertheless, writing acts as proof of witnesses since the reader and the author can both prove their ideas through an activity that was depicted before in writing (Ellis & Bochner,2006).
Researchers are also depicted as not being able to survive alone as the research work directly or indirectly affects other people. Relational ethics (Ellis, 2007) depict ethnographers as having personal experiences and attachments that affect other people while working. This is however supported when ethnographers maintain interpersonal friendship ties with their members who allow a good but complex way of analysing cultural materials and ethics. For auto ethnographers, they have to hide the easily identifiable characteristics like race, appearance or, gender to allow for good interoperability between the participants in the study (Bochner, 1984).
Reliability and generalization in the narration during the study allows for accurate results and prompts the validity of the outcome of the topics. This allows for the reduction of the critics and responses from various platforms, boosting the feedback mechanism of the research study.
References
Maso, Ilja (2001). Phenomenology and ethnography. In Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, Sara Delamont, John Lofland & Lyn Lofland (Eds.), Handbook of Ethnography (pp.136-144).
Bochner, Arthur P. (1984). The functions of human communication in interpersonal bonding. In Carroll C. Arnold & John W. Bowers (Eds.), Handbook of Rhetorical and Communication Theory (pp.544-621). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Ellis, Carolyn & Bochner, Arthur P. (2006). Analyzing analytic autoethnography: An autopsy. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35(4), 429-449.
Ellis, Carolyn (2007). Telling secrets, revealing lives: Relational ethics in research with intimate others. Qualitative Inquiry, 13(1), 3-29.