Hughes, J.A., King, V., Randall, D. and Sharrock, W. (1993), Ethnography for System Design: A Guide, Working paper, COMIC-LANCS-2-4.  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....Quintas [22] for a selection of papers. The main virtue of ethnography is its ability to make visible the real world sociality of a setting. 1 As a mode of social research it is concerned to produce detailed descriptions of the workaday activities of social actors within specific contexts [20,18]. It is a naturalistic method relying upon material drawn from the first hand experience of a fieldworker in some setting. It seeks to present a portrait of life as seen and understood by those who live and work within the domain concerned. It this objective which is the rationale behind the ....

....for example, which focus on the flow of data within a domain, are found wanting [28,30] While it is accepted that a balance needs to be found between the 1 Ethnography has a long history in social research. See, for a review, Ackroyd and Hughes (2) for a brief overview. Also Hughes et al. [18]. requirements of engineering and the need to adequately characterise the domain of application, such methods are an intrusion of the engineering mentality into areas where it is inappropriate. The result is, so it is argued, that essential aspects of the socially organised character of the ....

Hughes, J.A., King, V., Randall, D. and Sharrock, W. (1993), Ethnography for System Design: A Guide, Working paper, COMIC-LANCS-2-4.

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