Box 14.10
Examples of ethnographic analyses
Chapple and Nofziger (2000) Small exploratory ethnographic study investigating bingo players and bingo playing in a south-western US town.
Karp (1993) Development of a typology of responses by patients to the prescription of anti-depressant drugs.
Porter (1993) Ethnographic study of how racism affects occupational relationships between nurses and doctors using participant observation. Critical realist perspective.
Simpson (2000) Interpretive ethnography of young people’s use of spaces in a record store in Tampa, Florida.
Wolcott (1974) Primarily descriptive study of the workings of a committee involved in selecting the principal of an elementary school.