Summary
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With regular exercises, lists of key terms and points and self-evaluation checklists, Doing Ethnography systematically describes the various phases of an ethnographic inquiry and provides numerous examples, suggestions and advice for the novice ethnographer. Ethnography seeks to understand, describe and explain the symbolic world lying beneath the social action of groups, organizations and communities. This book clearly sets out the coordinates and foundations of this increasingly popular methodology. Giampietro Gobo discusses all the major issues, including the research design, access to the field, data collection, organisation and analysis, and communication of the results.
16 Leaving the Field
16 Leaving the Field
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- To understand when it is time to leave.
- To grasp the importance of devising an efficacious field exit strategy.
- To know the main difficulties in disengagement.
- To learn how to take one's leave of participants.
- To gain knowledge of ways to keep in touch.
16.1 Introduction
One of the most neglected problems in the literature on ethnography is how to leave the field. When we engage in an interaction, there are rituals and ...
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