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Dr. David Mills and Dr. Jane Dyson discuss the ethics and intricacies of ethnographic research. Though ethnography is often criticized for a lack of perceived rigor and generalizability, Mills and Dyson contradict these perceptions. Ethnography is generalizable in that it illustrates how broad social patterns manifest in a single context.
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Chapter 1: Who Were the Pioneers of Ethnography and Why Did They Say it Was Important?
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Chapter 2: How Has the Method of Ethnography Changed and Developed Since it Was First Articulated?
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Chapter 3: What Are the Common Criticisms of Ethnography?
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Chapter 4: What Data Gathering Skills Are Employed in an Ethnographic Study?
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Chapter 5: What Are the Common Mistakes Made by Those Using the Method For the First Time?
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Chapter 6: How Should Students Go About Designing an Ethnographic Study?
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Chapter 7: Can You Generalize From Ethnographic Studies?
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Chapter 8: Tell Me About One of Your Projects and How the Plan Compared to the Practice.
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Chapter 9: What Are the Main Ethical Issues That Ethnographers Have to Contend With?
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Chapter 10: What is an Ethnographic Portrait?
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Chapter 11: How Do You Decide What Data to Present When You Write up a Project?
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Chapter 12: Can You Write an Ethnographic Portrait From Any Research Data, or Do You Need Planned Research?
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Chapter 13: What is the Role of Field Notes? How Do You Capture What Happens in the Field?
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Chapter 14: When You've Finished Your Research, What's the Process of Writing it up?
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Chapter 15: How Often Can You Interrogate the Same Set of Field Notes?
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Chapter 16: How Personal Are Field Notes? Can Other People Use Your Notes?
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Chapter 17: How Will Technology Change Social Research?
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