Essentials of Autoethnography
The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data.

In this book, Christopher Poulos provides a step-by-step guide to writing autoethnography, illustrating its essential features and practices with excerpts from his own and others’ work.  Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze one’s personal experience in various contexts, and thereby understand its cultural, social, and emotional meaning.  

About the Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series: Even for experienced researchers, selecting and correctly applying the right method can be challenging. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations. Each book includes numerous examples to enable readers to quickly and thoroughly grasp how to leverage these valuable methods.
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Essentials of Autoethnography
The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data.

In this book, Christopher Poulos provides a step-by-step guide to writing autoethnography, illustrating its essential features and practices with excerpts from his own and others’ work.  Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze one’s personal experience in various contexts, and thereby understand its cultural, social, and emotional meaning.  

About the Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series: Even for experienced researchers, selecting and correctly applying the right method can be challenging. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations. Each book includes numerous examples to enable readers to quickly and thoroughly grasp how to leverage these valuable methods.
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Essentials of Autoethnography

Essentials of Autoethnography

by Christopher N. Poulos PhD
Essentials of Autoethnography

Essentials of Autoethnography

by Christopher N. Poulos PhD

Overview

The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data.

In this book, Christopher Poulos provides a step-by-step guide to writing autoethnography, illustrating its essential features and practices with excerpts from his own and others’ work.  Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze one’s personal experience in various contexts, and thereby understand its cultural, social, and emotional meaning.  

About the Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series: Even for experienced researchers, selecting and correctly applying the right method can be challenging. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations. Each book includes numerous examples to enable readers to quickly and thoroughly grasp how to leverage these valuable methods.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781433834547
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Publication date: 01/05/2021
Series: Essentials of Qualitative Methods Series
Pages: 100
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christopher N. Poulos, PhD, is professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. An ethnographer and philosopher of communication, he teaches courses in relational and family communication, ethnography, dialogue, and film. His award-winning book, Accidental Ethnography: An Inquiry into Family Secrecy, was published by Left Coast Press in 2009 and reissued as a classic edition in 2018. His work has appeared in Qualitative Inquiry, Communication Theory, Cultural Studies—Critical Methodologies, International Review of Qualitative Research, Qualitative Communication Research, Southern Communication Journal, and several edited books.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword Clara E. Hill Sarah Knox vii

1 Conceptual Foundations of Autoethnography 3

What Is Autoethnography? 4

History 6

Rationale 10

Situating Autoethnography in the Qualitative Tradition 11

Pioneers and Turning Points 13

Philosophical and Epistemological Background 14

Key Distinguishing Features of Autoethnography 16

2 Doing Autoethnography: Design and Data Collection 19

Openings 19

Practices 20

Engaging Participant Observation 21

Examining Sense Data (Perceptions) 22

Exploring Emotions 22

Formulating Research Questions 23

Conducting Exploratory Research 24

Searching for Stories, Conversations, and Artifacts 25

Mining Memories 27

Engaging in Systematic Reflexive Introspection 28

3 Writing Autoethnography 31

Writing as a Method of Inquiry 31

Assumptions 34

Getting Started 37

Building Momentum 41

4 Process and Craft 51

Considerations 54

Narrative Conventions of Autoethnography 55

5 Variations on the Method 67

Layered Accounts 68

Critical Autoethnography 69

Perfoimance Autoethnography 69

Poetic Inquiry 70

Autoethnography as Social Fiction 71

Collaborative Autoethnography 71

6 Methodological Integrity, Summary and Conclusions 73

Evaluating Autoethnography 74

Ethics 76

Summary and Conclusions 77

Appendix: Exemplar Studies 79

References 81

Index 89

About the Author 97

About the Series Editors 99

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