Join us for a seminar about Knowledge Sharing: Moving from Data Analysis to Theorising.
In this year’s series of Ethnography Circle, we address the process of theorising in ethnography and how theory fits into ethnographic research. This is often a chicken and egg question that plagues much of qualitative research including ethnography - what comes first theory or data? And how to move from one to the other? We know that good ethnography is usually theory-driven (Wilson & Chaddha, 2009). However, the relationship between the two is complicated and worth to be examined in details.
Drawing on the experience of the participants and the expert speakers, during our friendly and welcoming meetings we will explore questions such as: How do different fields of social research use theory in ethnographic research? What counts as theory in ethnographic work? What is the difference between inductive, deductive and abductive theorising? How do we balance description and analysis? How can we do theory when we are not using texts? These are some of the questions that drive this year’s Circle, where we are concerned with how theory fits into ethnographic research.