Work

Doing Human Service Ethnography

Year: 2021

Type: book

Abstract: EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Human service work is performed in many places – hospitals, shelters, households – and is characterised by a complex mixture of organising principles, relations and rules. Using ethnographic methods, researchers can investigate these site-specific complexities, providing multi-dimensional and compelling analyses. Bringing together both theoretical and practical material, this book shows researchers how ethnography can be carried out within human service settings. It provides an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic creativeness and offers a more humanistic and context-sensitive approach in the field of health and social care to generating valid knowledge about today’s service work.

Source: Policy Press eBooks

DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1sfsdm3

Authors: Jacobsson, Katarina, Gubrium, Jaber F. 1943-

Language: English

Topic: Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: University of Salford Manchester

OpenAlex ID: W3158740985

FWCI: 1.125

Cites: 60

Cited by: 12

Related to: 10