Contemporary Field Research: Perspectives and Formulations

As ethnography enters the twenty-first century, it has been transformed from a method of research standing on the edges of mainstream social science theory and research. Ethnography now attracts widespread interest, not only from anthropology and sociology but also from many other genres. The four distinctive idioms of qualitative inquiry-naturalism, ethnomethodology, emotionalism, and postmodernism-each use field research to pursue different questions and concerns, posit different versions...