Analytic Ethnography
Features, Failings, and Futures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20186320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Lofland (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 30-67 |
| Publication date | 1995-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/089124195024001002 |
| OpenAlex | W2120066021 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 101 |
| References cited | 47 |
The research strategy sometimes termed analytic ethnography has been a prominent—or even the dominant—form of qualitative inquiry for some decades. Lacking challenge by other qualitative approaches, however, there has been little need to articulate it as a distinctive strategy of qualitative research. The approach having now been challenged, it has become necessary clearly to adduce its defining features as a step in the larger task of undertaking accurate and systematic comparisons of diverse qualitative research strategies. I here attempt this first step by delineating seven features or tendencies that, in composite, constitute analytic ethnography. Following this articulation, I suggest some of analytic ethnography's successes and failures as a strategy of social research and I speculate about its future
Epistemology · Ethnography · Management · Political science · Politics · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social and Cultural Dynamics
The Pitch as Meaning-directing Activity
Beyond Retroduction? -- Hermeneutics, Reflexivity and Social Work Practice
Experts at Coordination
Filling the collective-practice gap
An ethnographic study of the motivations of foodstagrammer tourists
Listening to the City
Qualitative Research in the Post-Modern Era
Focused ethnography and analytical sociology
John Lofland's concept of analytical ethnography
"Hell, I'm An Addict, But I Ain't No Junkie"
Generic Processes in the Reproduction of Inequality
Ethnographic strategies for making the familiar strange
Tenuous Ties
Social networks and the maintenance of conformity
Calm Vessels
A theory of legal apparitions
Feigning Incompetence in the Field
The Social Organization of Merchants’ Activities. An Interactionist Study of Urban Marketplaces
The Interactionist Self and Grounded Research
Love, Friendship, and Disaffection in Plato and Aristotle
Go Out and Reconnect
RO1 Funding for Mixed Methods Research
Generally Speaking
Re-Engineering Telecommunications for the Way People Want to Live
Academic biliteracy in South African higher education
Exploratory Research as an Antidote to Theoretical Stagnation in Leisure Studies
For ethnography
Collaborative Governance of Ageing
Ethnographic Trailblazers
Symbolic interaction and classical greek scholarship
Reconceptualizing the Study of Community Life
Beyond Text
Causality, Agency, and Reality
Engaging the Student Role
They are too young to understand health’ a researchers reflexive account of researching with under fives
Finding the Strength to Heal
Methodological Issues in Macro Comparative Research
Ethnographers of the WorldUnited? Current Debates on the Ethnographic Study of Globalization
Risk Detection and Self‐Protection Among Homeless Youth
Ethnography and the Evocative World of Policing (Part I)
Caravan wives’ and ‘decent girls’
The Communication Bottleneck in Knitwear Design
Substance use and victimization
Men and Their Moments
The Form and Flow of Teaching Ethnographic Knowledge
Reaching out and making a difference
Between authoritarian governance and urban citizenship
On the Necessity of Re-engaging the Classical Greek and Latin Literatures
Reassessing the Mental Health Treatment Gap
The devil is in the details
Rule‐Intermediaries in Action
Transforming Land‐Taking Disputes in Socialist Asia
Objectivity and Subjectivity in the Ethnographic Method
Victim-Blaming in Disguise? Supervisors' Accounts of Problems in Healthcare Delivery
Enhancing Reflexivity in Research and Practice in Healthcare Through Oral-Based Autoethnography
Displaced in Place
Becoming Visible in the Public Sphere
The Role of Emotion in Land Regulation
How Dispute Resolution System Design Matters
Cooperation, competition, and survival strategies among Barcelona's day Labourers
Instructional Ventures
The Discourse of Development
Researching Drug Sellers
Management Citizenship Behavior
Time Is of the Essence
Prophetic Pragmatism and the Postmodern
Studying 'closed' workplaces
The promises of computational ethnography
Using history to explain the present
Elaborating Analytic Ethnography
A profile of New Agers
The Facts and Fictions of Qualitative Inquiry
Social Semiotics and Fieldwork
Not Bricolage but Boatbuilding
Ways of Learning
Applying Ethnography
Transforming Qualitative Research Methods
Individualizing Utopia
Peeking in the Black Box
If I Don't Have to Work Anymore,Who Am I
The Influence of Family and Peer Risk Networks on Drug Use Practices and Other Risks among Mexican American Noninjecting Heroin Users
On Studying Ethnologs (Not Just People, Societies in Miniature)
Human Memory, Social Process, and the Pragmatist Metamorphosis
On Apples, Oranges, and Autopsies
Analytic Autoethnography
A Meta-Analysis of Workplace Ethnographies
Women After the Utopia
Learning from Henry Mayhew
Researching From Afar
Adopting a Cloak of Incompetence
The Architecture of Ethnographic Knowledge
Organizational Anomie and Worker Consent
Compassionate Conservatives? Evangelicals, Economic Conservatism, and National Identity
Shelves and Bins
Sociology at the End of the Century
Organisational autoethnography
Powered Down
Birds, meat, and babies
Theme-Driven Social Analysis
Concept-Driven Sociology
Basics of qualitative research
Doing social life
Handbook of qualitative research
Reading Ethnographic Research
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Becoming an Ex
Understanding Ethnographic Texts
Fieldnotes
Symbolic Interactionism
Theories and theory groups in contemporary American sociology
Ethnography unbound
Tales of the Field
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Outsiders Studies in the Sociology of Deviance
The phenomenology of the social world
The Sociological Imagination
Out of the Cloister
Illness, Interaction, and the Self
Interaction in Everyday Life
Thoughts on Five New Journals and Some Old Ones
Polite Protesters
The Ethnographic Imagination
The practice of social research
Down on their luck
What's wrong with ethnography
Reflections on Anthropology's Ethnographic Crisis of Faith
Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists
Issues in Participant Observation
The Interaction Order
Ethnography Unbound
What Does Conflict Theory Predict about America's Future
Out of the Cloister
Identity Talk in the Peace and Justice Movement
On Fieldwork
Social Life in the Public Realm
Generic Social Processes
Reflections on a Thrice-Named Journal
The Past and the Future of Ethnography
The Martian and the Convert
Issues in Participant Observation
Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism
You Could be the Hundredth Monkey
| Unique citing works | 101 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,26 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 99 |