Ethnography originated as a distinct methodology in the early twentieth century with the professionalization of anthropology under Franz Boas in the USA and Bronislaw Malinowski in England. These pioneers shaped the practice of living in field communities for months or years as participant observers and as collectors of texts and accounts. For sociologists, the important ...

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