Harcourt brace jovanovich college publishers, c1979. It provides background for those who will encounter this methodology in their reading rather than instructions for carrying out. Forming and asking interview questions there are different types of interview questions that can be used in different ways. Questions that lay out an indepth descriptive sequence.
Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. When we examine the ethnographic interview as a speech event, we see that it shares many features. The ethnographic interview james spradley james spradley is a cultural anthropologist who has helped clarify the nature of ethnography the study of culture and cultural diversity. James p spradley the ethnographic interview is a practical, selfteaching handbook which guides. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Ethnography, spradley explains in this preface, offers all of us the chance to step outside our narrow cultural backgrounds, to set aside our socially inherited ethnocentrism. Here are a few from james spradley 1979 the ethnographic interview. The culture concept comes down to behavior patterns associated with particular groups of people, that is to customs or to a peoples way of life marvin harris. Ethnographic questioning within the context of the interview, counselors can employ spradleys 1979 ethnographic questions to help organize an understanding of clients views of reality. This is a revised version of a paper presented to the ssrcopen university conference on the ethnography of schooling, st hildas college, oxford, 10th. An interview is a specific speech event, separate from conversation, lecture, job interview, etc. One who conducts an ethnographic study of a culture spradley, 1979.
The cognitive edge approach borrows features from the anthropological method of the ethnographic interview, where researchers seek to understand the informants culture, and how their cultural universe informs meaning, through a series of carefully constructed questions spradley, 1979. This text is a follow up to spradleys earlier ethographic research handbook, the ethnographic interview, and guides students through the technique of participant participantobservation in the closeup study of social and cultural. See spradley 1979 for a discussion of inter viewing. Costellos examination of death and dying in elderly care wards.
The ethnographic interview ethnography is a form of qualitative research that includes descriptions of people, places, languages, events, and products. The text also shows how to analyze collected data and how to write an ethnography. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Spradley, 1979, holt, rinehart and winston edition, in english. Spradley the ethnographic interview is a practical, selfteaching handbook which guides students step by step through interview techniques commonly used to research ethnography and culture. He goes on to offer the novice researcher practical methods in conducting an ethnographic interview. Chapter one of the ethnographic interview spradley, 1979. This behavior patterns, customs, and a peoples way of life can all be defined, interpreted, and decribed from. Ethnographic questioning in the career counseling interview.
Waveland press the ethnographic interview by james p. Feb 17, 2016 the ethnographic interview is a practical, selfteaching handbook that guides readers stepbystep through interview techniques commonly used to research ethnography and culture. The ethnographic interview from spradley, 1979 when we examine the ethnographic interview as a speech event, we see that it shares many features with the friendly conversation. The ethnographic interview, participant observation james p. The appendices include research questions and writing tasks. The systematic examination of something to determine parts, the relationship among parts, and their relational whole the sequence followed in conventional social science research is nearly identical to qualitative, ethnographic studies, true or false. Field work is the hallmark of cultural anthropology. Spradley wrote or edited 20 books on ethnography and qualitative research including participant observation and the ethnographic interview 1979, wadsworth thomson learning. Whether in a new guinea village or on the streets of new york, the anthropologist goes to where people live and does. The ethnographic interview kindle edition by spradley. Harcourt brace jovanovich college publishers, 1979, pp. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Chapter one of the ethnographic interview spradley, 1979 culture. The previous articles there were 2 before this 1 in this series discussed several methodological approaches commonly used by qualitative researchers in the health professions.
They may interview people without their awareness, merely carrying on a friendly. Spradley 19331982, a professor of anthropology at macalester college, wrote or edited twenty books on ethnography and qualitative research in twelve years, including the cultural experience. This study uses a qualitativeinterpretive method with spradleys ethnographic approach consisting of 12 stages. The shift toward collecting data first hand in the late 19th early 20th century by social and cultural anthropologists. Data collection uses participatory observation, interview with key informant, and. The ethnographic interview 1979 edition open library. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Pdf teaching notethe ethnographic interview as a method in. Ethnographic interviewing barbara sherman heyl page 369 researchers in an everincreasing number of disciplinary and applied fields have been turning to ethnographic interviewing to help gather rich, detailed data directly from participants in the social worlds under study. The ethnographic interview, james spradley studocu. Examples of ethnographic research within the health services literature include strausss study of achieving and maintaining order between managers, clinicians, and patients within psychiatric hospital settings. In the ethnographic interview, spradley describes 12 steps for developing an ethnographic study using ethnosemantics. At the same time it provides a type of thoroughness, depth, and context that is very appreciated.
Students conduct an ethnographic interview with a person from a different. Participant observation is in some ways both the most natural and the most. In his book participant observation 1980, he makes explicit some basic concepts and skills needed for doing ethnography. Ask follow up questions to find out more information about hisher experiences. Taxis and barbers exploration of intravenous medication errors in acute care hospitals.
The ethnographic interview 1979, from which this selection is taken, provides guidelines for students to do ethnography without years of training. This article focuses on another important qualitative methodology. The data is collected by means of observation, interviewing, listening, and immersion with the least amount of distortion and bias. The text also teaches students how to analyze the data. In small groups, use the questions to interview a peer who has lived abroad. An approach using openended questions to elicit information from an informant in a cultures language while observing behavior and the use of artifacts spradley, 1979.
Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. The influence of legal proceedings on french general practice. In fact, skilled ethnographers often gather most of their data through participant. Ruralnursesperceptionsofjobrelatedstressesandcopingmethods. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the ethnographic interview. The ethnographic interview kindle edition by spradley, james p download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The text also teaches students how to analyze the data they collect, and how to write an ethnography. Spradley 19331982 was a professor of anthropology at macalester college from 1969. Researchers in an everincreasing number of disciplinary and applied fields have been turning to ethnographic interviewing to help gather rich, detailed data directly from participants in the social worlds under study. The ethnographic interview kindle edition by spradley, james p. The ethnographic interview is a practical, selfteaching handbook which guides students step by step through interview techniques commonly used to research ethnography and culture. Spradley wrote or edited 20 books on ethnography and qualitative research.
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