Doing Human Service Ethnography

Once the exclusive method of sociologists and anthropologists, the
use of ethnography in social research—broadly in situ participant
observation—has expanded across disciplines and settings. Ethnography
now appears prominently in social work, public health, management,
nursing and criminology, among other disciplines, with settings of
interest across the board. Ethnography now tends to be less about
societies as a whole and more about specific characteristics of the whole,
such as language variation, narrative structures, migration, gender, race,
class, age organization, power differentials and diverse human needs.
From the start, its findings have proven to be enormously important
in challenging prejudicial beliefs, unjust social arrangements and biased
public policies. Doing Human Service Ethnography takes some of its
significance from this research context.
[2021]

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