Review article

Methodological special features of contemporary etnographic research

Renata Relja

Abstract

Theory and practice of ethnography is the subject of contemporary
methodological discussion which is in line with the interests of the qualitative methodology. There has been an increasing presence of ethnographic research within a broad interdisciplinary range of reasons unlimited able to solve various problems. Ethnography is a synonym for aggregate of methods which includes direct and
supportive social contexts and there is plenty of written material in connection with the recording and reducing representation of human experience. Thus, ethnographic studies provide multiply interpretations of reality as well as much alternative interpretation of the data only through research by providing basis for identifying the width and complexity of social relationships and connection. The dominant methods by which it achieves are observation and participating observation, different types of interviews focusing
on ethnographic interviews, which ultimately defi nes the special forms of logging, access and analysis of results ethnographic research.

Keywords

ethnography; fieldwork; observing/participating observation; ethnographic interview

Hrčak ID:

118062

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/118062

Publication date:

8.5.2012.

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