Ethnography

Coordinator: Gary Fine, g-fine
Student Coordinator: Meccasia Zabriskie, q-zabriskie

The Ethnography Workshop is open to graduate students and faculty who are interested in the broad range of participant observation, field observations, and ethnographic methods. As a sociological method, ethnography refers to the qualitative description of human behavior, based on intensive fieldwork. This method offers a rich and finely-textured account of social life and culture in particular social systems, based on close observations and interviews. Ethnography embraces the idea that a social system depends on the meanings of behaviors as they are enacted within a local context. The Ethnography Workshop meets alternate Tuesdays from 5:00-6:30 p.m. in 222 Parkes Hall.