Overview
the reading fr this week is:
How ethnography can illuminate what is going on in and across organizations and venues: Spradley, James P., The Ethnographic Interview, pp. 17-21, 25-39, and 58-77.
Schutt, R. K., “Qualitative methods: observing, participating, listening,” ch. 8 in Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Social Research, 3rd ed., (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2001), pp. 263-325.
GAO Report: Ethnographic Studies Can Inform Agencies’ Actions, (especially pp. 1-14), March 2003, . https://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03455.pdf
Further resources: Schensul, Stephen L., Schensul, Jean J., and Le Compte, Margaret. “Essential Ethnographic Methods,” Ethnographer’s Toolkit 2, Altamira Press, 1999, pp. 69-89.
How do the words and metaphors we use to think and communicate shape how we perceive the world and thereby enable or constrain certain types of action? How does the framing of public policy questions/debates affect the actions that are taken?