Ethnography Talks: What is rigorous ethnography?

The ideal-typical model of scientific inquiry is based on controlled experiments. Since the advent of scientific methods, various tools – ranging from precise measurements to rules of thumb – have been developed to increase reliability, validity, reproducibility, and public trust. This seminar is an open invitation to discuss the need for, and the possible means of, establishing rigorous ethnography. It addresses why rigour might be necessary in ethnographic research and contributes to the ongoing conversation initiated by our own work and that of M.L. Small.

The goal is to have an open, critical dialogue on what rigour can and should mean in ethnographic practice. Rigorous Phenomenology is about the meaning of the actors. You may develop a formally rigorous model – and this is what "quantitative" researchers have done, but this formal rigour, If it limits our explanations that are grounded In the meaning of the actors we stud, It comes with not value. Our problem Is a different one, to establish a rigorous model so that we can understand the meaning of those we study.

All events in this series are free, public and hybrid.

Zoom Link: https://unisg.zoom.us/j/65590848325?pwd=xywPxl0Ovv7WHLLrwamsgKs8DljZEe.1

ID: 655 9084 8325 / Passcode: etalks

The series is organised by the Critical Ethnography Collective at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at HSG.