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Encyclopedia > Fieldnotes

Fieldnotes refer to various notes recorded by social scientists during or after their observation of a specific phenomena they are studying. Terms like SOSE (Studies of Society & the Environment) not only refer to social sciences but also studies of the environment. ... Observation is an activity of a sapient or sentient living being (e. ...


Emerson (1995) defines fieldnotes in ethnography (a subfield of sociology) as 'accounts describing experiences and observations the researcher has made while participating in an intense and involved manner'. Ethnography (from the Greek ethnos = people and graphein = writing) refers to the genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...


External links

  • Fieldnotes: breaking the silence

Example fieldnotes

  • a photo-journal of some of my recent fieldwork in Basque dance
  • FieldNotes: Notes on the Anthropology of British Columbia

Further reading

  • Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, University Of Chicago Press, 1995, ISBN 0-226-20681-5

 

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