Ethnography (Soc. 576-0, sec.22)

Coordinator: Gary Fine (g-fine@northwestern.edu)
Student Coordinator: TBD

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.