Topics

• Ethnography and participant observation

• Text analysis: (a) Grounded theory and (b) Content analysis

• Coding & measurement

Handouts

• Borgatti. Participant Observation
• Borgatti. Notes on Spradley
• Wenger, E. Vignette 1. Communities of Practice. Cambridge. [htm]
• Wenger, E. Vignette 2. Communities of practice. [pdf]
• American Anthropological Association. Statement on Ethnography and IRBs.

Articles & Books

• Goodwin, C. Professional Vision. [pdf]
• James Spradley. The Ethnographic Interview. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch College Publishers. 0-03-044496-9 (whole book)

Optional

• Jehn, Karen 1997. A qualitative analysis of conflict types and dimensions in organizational groups. Administrative Science Quarterly 42: 530-557. [^pdf]

Links

• ethnography