Participant Observation

Download or read book Participant Observation written by James P. Spradley and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spradley should be read by anyone who wants to gain a true understanding of the process of participant observation. This text is a follow-up to his ethnographic research handbook, The Ethnographic Interview, and guides readers through the technique of participant observation to research ethnography and culture. Spradley shows how to analyze collected data and to write an ethnography. The appendices include research questions and writing tasks.