Definitions for ethnography
ɛθˈnɒg rə fiethnog·ra·phy

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1. ethnography, descriptive anthropologynoun

   the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies

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1. ethnographynoun

   The branch of anthropology that scientifically describes specific human cultures and societies.

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1. Ethnography

   Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining the behavior of the participants in a given social situation and understanding the group members' own interpretation of such behavior. As a form of inquiry, ethnography relies heavily on participant observation—on the researcher participating in the setting or with the people being studied, at least in some marginal role, and seeking to document, in detail, patterns of social interaction and the perspectives of participants, and to understand these in their local contexts. It had its origin in social and cultural anthropology in the early twentieth century, but spread to other social science disciplines, notably sociology, during the course of that century. Ethnographers mainly use qualitative methods, though they may also employ quantitative data. The typical ethnography is a holistic study and so includes a brief history, and an analysis of the terrain, the climate, and the habitat. A wide range of groups and organisations have been studied by this method, including traditional communities, youth gangs, religious cults, and organisations of various kinds. While, traditionally, ethnography has relied on the physical presence of the researcher in a setting, there is research using the label that has relied on interviews or documents, sometimes to investigate events in the past such as the NASA Challenger disaster. There is also a considerable amount of 'virtual' or online ethnography, sometimes labelled netnography or cyber-ethnography.

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1. ethnography

   Ethnography is a qualitative research method often used in social sciences, particularly in anthropology and sociology. It involves the systematic study and immersive observation of human groups or individual behaviors in their natural settings to gain an in-depth understanding of cultural phenomena, social structures, and human interactions. This research method typically involves participant observation, interviews, and data collection to provide a detailed and holistic description of the studied culture or society.

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1. Ethnographynoun

   that branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology

2. Etymology: [Gr. nation + -graphy: cf. F. ethnographie.]

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1. Ethnography

   Ethnography is a qualitative research design aimed at exploring cultural phenomena. The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group. An ethnography is a means to represent graphically and in writing, the culture of a people. Ethnography, as the empirical data on human societies and cultures, was pioneered in the biological, social, and cultural branches of anthropology but has also become popular in the social sciences in general—sociology, communication studies, history—wherever people study ethnic groups, formations, compositions, resettlements, social welfare characteristics, materiality, spirituality, and a people's ethnogenesis. The typical ethnography is a holistic study and so includes a brief history, and an analysis of the terrain, the climate, and the habitat. In all cases it should be reflexive, make a substantial contribution toward the understanding of the social life of humans, have an aesthetic impact on the reader, and express a credible reality. It observes the world from the point of view of the subject and records all observed behavior and describes all symbol-meaning relations using concepts that avoid casual explanations.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ethnography
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ethnography
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethnography
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=ethnography