Ethnographic data can be collected systematically via structured interviews with local informants

Evidence

Most simply, ethnography is based on the idea that ‘hanging out’ with people in ‘natural’ environments yields very different findings than straightforward interview studies might, and ethnographers are interested in the contradictions between what people say and what they do. At a more fundamental level, ethnographers think that how people understand and narrate their own lives is important and interesting. I would take this a step further and say that ethnographers hope to learn something from the people they speak to. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 41 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ethnographic interviews aim at informants’ self-understanding, not factual truth. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 947; Ethnographic study of tech culture requires in-person witnessing, not just digital observation. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 29; Ethnographic hanging out exposes contradictions between what people say and do — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 41 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Ethnographic hanging out exposes contradictions between what people say and do #complicates (0.75) — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 41