What are the key characteristics of ethnography?
Here is the foundational question in ethnography: What are the cultural characteristics of this group of people or this cultural scene? The key idea of ethnography is to discover and describe the culture or cultural scenes of a group of people. Everything revolves around the conceptual framework of culture (i.e., a system of shared beliefs, values, practices, perspectives, folk knowledge, language, norms, rituals, and material objects and artifacts that members of a group use in understanding their world and in relating to others). This involves understanding the etic and emic perspectives, not being ethnocentric when collecting and interpreting data, searching for the wholes, staying in the field for an extended period, etc. 12.8. What is the difference between a macro and a micro culture? Macro means big and micro means small. Ethnographers may study small cultures as well as big cultures. A small culture would be a local high school band; a big culture would be an American which is