The Typical Outline of an Ethnographic Research Publication
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11062377 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Prendergast (Christopher Prendergast is professor of sociology at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he teaches courses in social theory, urban sociology, and social organization. He won his university's “Teacher of the Year Award” in 2004., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 322-327 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0092055x0403200307 |
| OpenAlex | W1971706045 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
THE PURPOSE OF this teaching note is to share some classroom materials that help undergraduates extract more sociologically relevant content from the ethnographic re-search publications they read. Aided by prototyping, discussion, and practice, the materials can help students develop ethno-graphic research projects that are better framed conceptually. The materials were developed for the author’s course, Communities and Urban Society 314, which usually enrolls 20 jun-iors and seniors. Intended to get under-graduates off campus and into the commu-nity, the course requires students to under-take a qualitative research study of their own design and to present their findings— using visual images such as photographs— through Power Point presentations at semes-ter’s end. The popular course helps to boost student interest in sociological research and to increase the number of honors research projects. Although students may opt to undertake life histories, intensive interviewing of sin-gle informants, and historical research in-stead, most select the ethnographic research option. After several lectures and readings on the Chicago School of Sociology, stu-dents analyze and discuss, seminar style, some 19 ethnographies. The first ethnogra-phy they read (De Meis 1999) is offered as a prototype and analyzed into its component parts. The other readings are paired topi-cally and ascend from micro to macro levels of analysis, concluding with a complex eth-nography that uses a quasi-experimental
Educational research · Ethnography · Media studies · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Social Development and Education Research
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |