Abstract
Part I. Ethnographic Research: Ethnography and Culture. Language and Field Work. Informants. Part II. The Developmental Research Sequences: Locating an Informant. Interviewing an Informant. Making an Ethnographic Record. Asking Descriptive Questions. Analyzing Ethnographic Interviews. Making a Domain Analysis. Asking Structural Questions. Making a Taxonomic Analysis. Asking Contrast Questions. Making a Componential Analysis. Discovering Cultural Themes. Writing an Ethnography. Notes. Appendices: A Taxonomy of Ethnographic Questions. Developmental Research Sequence Writing Tasks. The Development Research Sequence Method. Bibliography. Index.
Keywords
EthnographyInterviewTaxonomy (biology)LinguisticsSociologyAnthropologyParticipant observationPsychologyBiology
Related Publications
Research methods in anthropology: qualitative and quantitative approaches
Chapter 1. Anthropology and the Social Sciences Chapter 2. The Foundations of Social Research Chapter 3. Preparing for Research Chapter 4. Research Design: Experiments and Exper...
The ethnographic interview
This chapter describes the use of interviews as a method for data collection in linguistic ethnography. It provides an account of the history of interviews, locating their origi...
Qualitative Research in Business and Management
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION How to Use This Book Overview of Qualitative Research PART TWO: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF RESEARCH Research Design Philosophical Perspectives Ethics PART TH...
The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project
PART ONE: TAKING THE LEAP INTO THE RESEARCH WORLD The challenge of tackling a research project So what is this thing called research and why do it? The need for research knowled...
InterViews: Learning the Craft of Qualitative Research Interviewing
List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables Preface to the Third Edition Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction 1. Introduction to Interview Research Conversation as Research Thre...
Publication Info
- Year
- 2017
- Type
- reference-entry
- Citations
- 8307
- Access
- Closed
External Links
Social Impact
Altmetric
PlumX Metrics
Social media, news, blog, policy document mentions
Citation Metrics
8307
OpenAlex
Cite This
James P. Spradley
(2017).
Ethnographic Interview.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods
.
https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483381411.n168
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.4135/9781483381411.n168