Ethnography versus case study: Positioning research and researchers

Qualitative Research Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-27

  White, Julie ^a   Drew, Sarah ^b   Hay, Trevor ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case study; Ethnography; Funded research; Methodology; Narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349745402     PISSN: 14439883     EISSN: 14480980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3316/QRJ0901018     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Abercrombie, N., Hill, S. & Turner, B. S. (2000). Penguin dictionary of sociology (4th ed.). London: Penguin.
2. Britzman, D. (2003). Practice makes practice: A critical study of learning to teach (2nd ed.). New York: State University of New York Press.
3. Campbell, R. & Wasco, S. M. (2000). Feminist approaches to social science: Epistemological and methodological tenets. American Journal of Community Psychology, 28(6), 773-791. [CrossRef]
4. Cheek, J. (2005). The practice and politics of funded qualitative research. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 387-409.
5. Clifford, J. & Marcus G. E., (Eds.) (1986). Writing culture: The poetics and politics of ethnography. Berkley, CA: University of California Press.
6. Fontana, A. (2003). Postmodern trends in interviewing. In J. F. Gubrium & J. A. Holstein (Eds.), Postmodern interviewing, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 51-65.
7. Guba, E. G. & Lincoln, Y. S. (2005). Paradigmatic controversies, contradictions, and emerging confluences. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research (3rd ed.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 191-215.
8. hooks, b. (1990). Yearning: Race, gender, and cultural politics. Boston: South End Press.
9. James, A. (2001). Ethnography in the study of childhood. In P. Atkinson, A. Coffey, S. Delamont, J. Lofland & I. Lofland (Eds.), Handbook of ethnography, Los Angeles: Sage, 246-257.
10. Kohler Riessman, C. (2006). Narrative interviewing. In V. Jupp (Ed.), The Sage dictionary of social research methods, London: Sage, 189-191.
11. Liamputtong, P. (2007). Researching the vulnerable: A guide to sensitive research methods. London: Sage.
12. Merriam, S. (1988). Case study research in education: A qualitative approach. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
13. Meyer, C. B. (2001). A case in case study methodology. Field Methods, 13(4), 329-352. [CrossRef]
14. Ragin, C. C. (1992). Introduction: Cases of 'what is a case?'. In C. C. Ragin & H. S. Becker (Eds.), What is a case? Exploring the foundations of social inquiry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-18.
15. Richardson, L. (1990). Writing strategies: Reaching diverse audiences. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
16. Richardson, L. (2000). Writing: A method of inquiry. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (2nd ed.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 929-948.
17. Richardson, L. & St Pierre, E. A. (2005). Writing: A method of inquiry. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
18. Stake, R. (2005). Qualitative case studies. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), The Sage handbook of qualitative research (3rd ed.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 443-466.
19. van Maanen, J. (1995). An end to innocence: The ethnography of ethnography. In J. van Maanen (Ed.), Representation in ethnography, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1-35.
20. White, J. & Hay, T. (2007, 2-5 May). Crafting narratives, writing lives: The narrative interview as medium, method and theory in a large nationally-funded Australian qualitative study. Paper presented at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
21. Willis, J. W. (2007). Foundations of qualitative research: Interpretive and critical approaches. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.