1st Edition

Practical Ethnography A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector

By Sam Ladner Copyright 2014
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

211 Pages
by Routledge

Ethnography is an increasingly important research method in the private sector, yet ethnographic literature continues to focus on an academic audience. Sam Ladner fills the gap by advancing rigorous ethnographic practice that is tailored to corporate settings where colleagues are not steeped in social theory, research time lines may be days rather than months or years, and research sponsors expect... Read more

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Using Theory in Ethnography
Chapter 3 Managing a Private-Sector Ethnography Project
Chapter 4 Ethnographic Tools
Chapter 5 Managing Clients
Chapter 6 Ethical Ethnography
Chapter 7 Sampling
Chapter 8 Fieldwork
Chapter 9 Analysis
Chapter 10 Reporting
Chapter 11 Beyond Ethnography

Biography

Sam Ladner is a sociologist, UX researcher, and student of productivity. She specializes in ethnographic research for product design. Prior to her current job as Principal UX Research Lead at Amazon, she worked at Microsoft in the Operating Systems Group, where she led the research on human-led design, and Microsoft Office, where she conducted ethnographic studies of workplaces. She holds a PhD in sociology and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ryerson School of Information Technology Management in Toronto.