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Thinking Ethnographically
First Edition
- Paul Atkinson - Cardiff University, UK
June 2017 | 216 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Written by a leading authority, Thinking Ethnographically discusses a wide range of analytic ideas that can and should inform ethnographic analysis. In introducing the notion of "granular ethnography" it argues for an approach to qualitative research that is sensitive to the complexities of everyday social life.
A much-needed antidote to superficial research and analysis, the text deals not merely with the practical methods of fieldwork, but with the far more ambitious enterprise of turning ethnographic data into productive ideas and concepts. Author Paul Atkinson enables us not merely to do ethnography, but truly to think ethnographically. His book will prove invaluable to students and researchers across the social sciences.
A much-needed antidote to superficial research and analysis, the text deals not merely with the practical methods of fieldwork, but with the far more ambitious enterprise of turning ethnographic data into productive ideas and concepts. Author Paul Atkinson enables us not merely to do ethnography, but truly to think ethnographically. His book will prove invaluable to students and researchers across the social sciences.
Introduction: Granular ethnography
Defining social reality
Encounters
Language and performance
Identities
Knowledge and reason
Senses, places and things
Time and Memory
‘A deceptively simple tour de force by a master of ethnography. An essential text for all students and teachers of the method’s theory and practice.’
University of Exeter
A masterclass by a master ethnographer on how to make sense of qualitative data.
UCLA
A vital contribution. And all the more timely, given the continuing explosion of qualitative and ethnographic research.
Durham University
