Ethnography is any research project that reveals a target audience’s range of behaviors and beliefs that lead them to certain actions based environment. It references specific topics or issues where the intent is to provide a detailed, in-depth description of everyday life depending on the individual or groups circumstances. There are many characteristics of high quality Urban Ethnography. The study of ones culture is a very important tool when ethnography is taking place. This allows researchers to focus on the everyday behaviors that take place within members of a certain culture. Interactions between one culture and another play a major role as they provide researchers with evidence on how one group of people will treat their peers versus
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Multiple perspectives provides ethnographer with input from each individual member of that culture, these individuals can account for their experiences within that culture that is unique to them. In same circumstance one individual may react to a situation the same or differently than someone else in their culture, and it’s the ethnographers job to figure out why. Empirical evidence from individuals can also provide researcher with a common sense to how the culture handles certain situations. These are important characteristics of research that leads to high quality ethnography.
Throughout the different studies in The Urban Ethnography Reader, there are good examples of studies that portray the characteristics of high quality ethnography. By examining each study, the positive effects that these characteristics have on research will be …show more content…
Jackson Jr. is a study, which observes Harlemites and their relationships with individuals from different classes. Jackson uses interviews during his study. Through interviews Jackson obtains perspectives from Harlemites, which he would not have received without dialogue with these individuals. In one conversation, Jackson learns that individuals tend to associate themselves with people, which common interest, so they think. After examining conversation with one Harlemite, named Paul, Jackson learns that there are some discrepancies in their response. Jackson learns that he doesn’t only associate himself with individuals that he works and goes out with that are in the same class as he is. Jackson reveals through his study “ Harlemites at different point in time tended to dismiss or “forget” their contacts with people from different rungs of the socioeconomic ladder” Jackson Jr.(2001): pg#98). From his study Jackson is able to conclude that Harlemites would like to consider themselves introverted, but that is not the case, as they socialize with many different individuals from numerous social classes on a daily basis, and just don’t consider them friends. Jackson Jr. (2001): pgs#97-99). The interviews that Jackson maintained demonstrate quality ethnography as he discovers the tendencies of Harlemites, as they insist that they have no
Multiple perspectives provides ethnographer with input from each individual member of that culture, these individuals can account for their experiences within that culture that is unique to them. In same circumstance one individual may react to a situation the same or differently than someone else in their culture, and it’s the ethnographers job to figure out why. Empirical evidence from individuals can also provide researcher with a common sense to how the culture handles certain situations. These are important characteristics of research that leads to high quality ethnography.
Throughout the different studies in The Urban Ethnography Reader, there are good examples of studies that portray the characteristics of high quality ethnography. By examining each study, the positive effects that these characteristics have on research will be …show more content…
Jackson Jr. is a study, which observes Harlemites and their relationships with individuals from different classes. Jackson uses interviews during his study. Through interviews Jackson obtains perspectives from Harlemites, which he would not have received without dialogue with these individuals. In one conversation, Jackson learns that individuals tend to associate themselves with people, which common interest, so they think. After examining conversation with one Harlemite, named Paul, Jackson learns that there are some discrepancies in their response. Jackson learns that he doesn’t only associate himself with individuals that he works and goes out with that are in the same class as he is. Jackson reveals through his study “ Harlemites at different point in time tended to dismiss or “forget” their contacts with people from different rungs of the socioeconomic ladder” Jackson Jr.(2001): pg#98). From his study Jackson is able to conclude that Harlemites would like to consider themselves introverted, but that is not the case, as they socialize with many different individuals from numerous social classes on a daily basis, and just don’t consider them friends. Jackson Jr. (2001): pgs#97-99). The interviews that Jackson maintained demonstrate quality ethnography as he discovers the tendencies of Harlemites, as they insist that they have no