THE ETHNOGRAPHIC METHOD ANALYSIS OF THE TURNING OF ETHNOLOGY TO ETHNOGRAPHY

How to analyse field work data avoiding the interpretation of a "savage metropolitan"?

Abstract

The objective of this study is the consideration of theoretical tools used by researchers in ethnographic studies. Por the orderly development of ideas we will follow these steps: 1) Formal methods in social investigation, 11) Reflexivity of the sciences, 111) The paths of the ethnographer. In relation to this last subheading, we formulated sorne questions linked to the work of the ethnographer on the field. How does the ethnographer construct the text of the observations? Is he/she faithful to the informant? Can a text describing the "real" in an observed culture be constructed for the registers? Does reflexivity influence the analysis of the researcher?  Are the results of the ethnographic investigation universal?