What is Participant Observation?
"Participant observation is the central research method of ethnography. It requires a researcher to engage with people in as many different situations as possible to look at what people actually do as well as what they say they do (as in interviews or documents) in their everyday lives" - from EAR Training Handbook
Books about Participant Observation
The following books are available as ebooks through the UCSF Library unless otherwise noted
Approaches to Ethnography by ISBN: 9780190236052Publication Date: 2017-11-20Available via Interlibrary Loan
Participant Observation by ISBN: 9780759119284Publication Date: 2010-11-01Available via Interlibrary Loan
Participant observation : a practical field guide for students and lecturers by ISBN: 1529759269Publication Date: 2021
Principles, Approaches and Issues in Participant Observation by ISBN: 9780367815080Publication Date: 2020-02-19Available via Interlibrary Loan
Resources on Participant Observation
- Ethical Challenges in Participant Observation: A Reflection on Ethnographic FieldworkAn article by Jun Li from The Qualitative Report.
- How to . . . use ethnographic methods and participant observationGood introduction to ethnographic methods.
- Participant Observation from EAR HandbookThe Ethnographic Action Research (EAR) Training Handbook includes a short intro to participant observation and field notes.
- Participation Observation Field GuideFrom Duke University, a thorough overview of participant observation.
Participant Observation in the Literature
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