Week 6: Ethnography

method for scienfic decribing of

cltural groups

in nursing is a foucs on health and illness within a

culutral system

culture is what people _____

say and do and the relationship between those

cultures two perspectives

1. behaviour/materialistic: observable patterns

2. cognitive: consists of beliefs and ideas people use

holistic understanding

seeks to understand another’s way of life from the perspective of those experiencing it

context includes

where people live, their nautral setting or where the experience occured

context is composed of 3 environments

1. social

2. personal

3. political

Emic

insider views od the world

has some knowledge of context

advantages of emic

access and acceptance to research setting

trsut and openess

disadvantages of emic

blursing understanding due to familairity

undue influence of the researchers perspective

etic

outsider view of world

unfamilar with context

advantages of emic

objective understanding

access infor indsider may not be privy to

disadvantages of emic

difficulting establishing trust

culutral shcok

ethnography seeks to develop generalizations of different socieities by combining the

etic and emic perspectives

culutral ethnography

focuses in belifs and practices that limit human freedom

human thinking mediated by power relations

attentive to oppresion and domination of those with less power

feminist ethnography

focuses on exposisng paterns of oppresion that shape womens lives

impact of race, class, gender, ethnicity

ethno-geriatric

focus on examining issues of health and aging

classical/conventional

focus on describing and providing insight about a group of cultiure

insitiuinal ethnigraphy

focus on peoples everyday lives and how they are coordinated by insitiuinal forces

focus ethnography

foucs on culutes framed within discrete community

authoethnography

focus on personal experience

digital ethnography

focus on online community

ID Phenomenon: varies in scope and ranges from ____ ____ study of culture to _____ _____ study of sub-units

long term

shorter term

ID PHEN: focus on groups or patients ___________ a particlaur phenomeon

experiencing

the research question

descriptvive or broad open ended

followed by in dethb questions

researcher perspective

assumes role of an interpter of an alient world as they try to make sense from emic POV

personal biases set aside

samling and collection

select a cultural group experiencing phenomon and use informants

gainin access

access is negotiated through gatekeeprs; ceos, deens

data cathering 4

observation, informant interviews, life histories, photographs

data analysis

focus on searching for the meaning of cultural symbols and representations

description of findings 5

detailed and throrough

pull reader in

recreating mood

addressing surpising observations

monographs