Ethnography: principles, practice and potential

• Published in: Nursing standard Vol. 29; no. 36; pp. 36 - 41
• Main Author: Draper, Jan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England RCNi 06.05.2015
• Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural - education; Anthropology, Cultural - methods; Ethnography; Health care; Humans; Infertility; Knowledge management; Nurses; Nursing; Patients; Principles; Qualitative Research; Research Design - trends; Researchers; Studies; United Kingdom; research methods; Ethnography; healthcare research; qualitative enquiry

Ethnography is a methodology that is gaining popularity in nursing and healthcare research. It is concerned with studying people in their cultural context and how their behaviour, either as individuals or as part of a group, is influenced by this cultural context. Ethnography is a form of social res...