Thursday, January 05, 2006

Research Design: Ethnographic

Ethnographic Research
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/ethno.htm
From a graduate course at North Carolina State University entitled (somewhat ironically) Quantitative Research in Public Administration.

Thorough notes.The Ethnographic Research Cycle
http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~marylynn/ethno.html
A visual representation of how ethnographic research gets done.

International Institute for Qualitative Methodology
http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/
The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology is a multidisciplinary institute at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This site is a rich resource for a variety of qualitative research matters.

Methods Main Page
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthro/CPIA/METHODS/
A simplified guide for how to do ethnographic research.

Introduction to Interviewing Techniques
http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/IGSD/IQPHbook/ch11.html#11
This is a chapter from an online handbook prepared by James K. Doyle of the Department of Social Science and Policy Studies at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

References on Ethnographic Research
http://www.qual.auckland.ac.nz/ethrefs.htm
This is a list of references on ethnographic research. After a brief introduction which suggests those works that are essential reading for newcomers to the field, the list is organized into two parts: the first part lists some important citations related to the approach in other disciplines (including the source disciplines), the second lists citations related to the approach in Information Systems.