Margaret Diane LeCompte

Stephen L. Schensul

Margaret Diane LeCompte, M.A., Ph.D.

Jean J. Schensul

Essential Ethnographic Methods akes a mixed methods approach to introducing the fundamental, face-to-face data collection tools that ethnographers and other qualitative researchers use.

Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires

Essential Ethnographic Methods

Merrill Singer

Ellen K. Cromley

Robert T. Trotter

Robert T. Trotter, 2nd

Whether it is to understand the networks of individuals, the physical makeup of a household or community, or to develop strategies for finding difficult-to-reach populations such as the homeless or drug-addicted, applied researchers increasingly need to understand spatial methods. In this brief volume, the techniques of network analysis, mapping, and finding hidden populations are explained in simple, practical language. The authors describe when and how to use these techniques and offer numerous examples of how the methods have worked in community psychology, drug research, risk assessment, and network analysis, among other settings.

Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, & Hidden Populations

Margaret D. LeCompte

This is Book 4 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition. This collection of individually authored chapters provides cutting-edge approaches to ethnography. Specialized Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed Methods Approach complements the basic inventory of ethnographic data collection tools presented in Book 3 with a number of important additional approaches to conducting ethnography. These include defining and collecting cultural artifacts, collecting secondary and archival data, cultural sorting and comparing methods, spatial research and analysis, network research and analysis, use of multimedia strategies for the collection of ethnographic data, ways to recruit and study “hidden populations,” and participatory ethnographic video production. These data collection strategies are called “enhanced ethnographic methods” because each of them parallels and enhances a strategy first presented in Book 3. Most ethnographers will want to use at least one or two of these enhanced ethnographic methods in their work. Each classic chapter is comprehensive, offering an introduction, description, examples of how to use the method or approach, and discussion of how to conduct effective analyses. Using Book 3 and Book 4 together adds depth and accuracy to cultural portraits and explications. Other books in the set: Book 1: Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research: An Introduction, Second Edition by Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul 9780759118690 Book 2: Initiating Ethnographic Research: A Mixed Methods Approach by Stephen L. Schensul, Jean J. Schensul, and Margaret D. LeCompte 9780759122017 Book 3: Essential Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed Methods Approach, Second Edition by Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte 9780759122031 Book 5: Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach, Second Edition by Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul 9780759122079 Book 6: Ethics in Ethnography: A Mixed Methods Approach by Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul 9780759122093 Book 7: Ethnography in Action: A Mixed Methods Approach by Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte 9780759122116

A Mixed Methods Approach

Specialized Ethnographic Methods

Schensul & LeCompte, Essential Ethnographic Methods: Observations, Interviews and Questionnaires (AltaMira, 1999, $34.95) Paper: 7728 LTD sales, $156,131 net sales (Last year sales: 538, YTD sales: 125) Schensul & LeCompte, Designing & Conducting Ethnographic Research, 2E (AltaMira, 2010, $34.95) Paper: 1095 LTD sales, $28,018 net sales

Initiating Ethnographic Research

Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach, Second Edition, is a comprehensive treatment of analysis strategies used in ethnographic research, addressing the "crunching" and manipulation of both qualitative and quantitative ethnographic data.

Jean J. Schensul

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