Chapter Objectives

After completing the study of Chapter 10, students should be able to:

1. State the main purpose of ethnographic research;
2. Identify distinctive characteristics of ethnographic research;
3. Explain the role played by research questions and hypotheses in ethnographic research;
4. List the main data sources for and main procedures used in ethnographic research;
5. Describe how data are analyzed in ethnographic research; and
6. Describe how findings are reported in ethnographic studies.