Talk:Ethnography

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Contents 1 should enter a discussion on business ethnography here as well 2 need to distinguish between the genre of writing and the research done to support it 3 Ruth Fulton Benedict 4 quantitative and qualitative 5 Plagarized? 6 Digital Ethnography

[edit] should enter a discussion on business ethnography here as well

Hoyamann 20:16, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] need to distinguish between the genre of writing and the research done to support it

The term ethnography is actually more precise than what the article suggests: Ethnography denotes the monograph that scholars (anthropologists) write following their research. The research itself is called ethnographic research -- not ethnography! The methods are called ethnographic methods.

[edit] Ruth Fulton Benedict

Mention should be made here of Ruth Fulton Benedict.

[edit] quantitative and qualitative

Ethnography isn't just qualitative research. It uses elements of quantitative data as well, depending on the style of the ethnographer. test

Agreed, ethnographic writing may include survey data and other quantitative writing. It's up to the author to include such fieldwork.falsedef 07:46, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

In the beginning of the article is stated that Ethnos=nation. when you look at the "Ethnicity" page here on wikipedia, it states ethnos=people. to my knowledge the latter is better corresponding with the original greek term.

[edit] Plagarized?

This whole article appears to be copied directly from http://en.allexperts.com/e/e/et/ethnography.htm

--192.43.227.18 12:21, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. Someone needs to start it from scratch.

Allexperts is clearly using the content from here, not the other way around, and they are using it according to the copyright as far as I can tell. --Ronz 23:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Digital Ethnography

I referenced Wikipedia's Ethnography entry in a published article focusing on Professor Wesch and Digital Ethnography. I think the Ethnography entry would benefit from Professor Wesch or other expert's opinion on Digital Ethnography. --Dkaufman1 15:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I've read the article numerous times now and don't see any mention that any part of this article comes from a Chicago newspaper. It doesn't hold up to WP:EL. I suggest you post some sources here for examination by other editors. --Ronz 15:52, 22 February 2007 (UTC)