Controversy over the sociologist Alice Goffman’s On the Run, a study of young people on the margins of society, has put ethnography on trial. Lost in the accusations and rebuttals, I fear, is the ...

Replication controversies have plagued the social sciences in recent years. But one research method is uniquely difficult to verify: ethnography. Ethnographers, who often work in sociology and ...

Ethnography is a term that originated in anthropology and refers to the systematic study of people and cultures by spending time living with them. By capturing detailed observations to understand how ...

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At the heart of ethnographic research is observation. Ethnographers watch how people interact with people, places, and things. It’s anti-lab science. There are rarely white coats and almost never ...

Redmond, WA – Ethnography, a form of applied anthropology, sounds way too fuzzy and foreign to turn the heads of corporate types. Certainly, in the past, it has been something of an oddity; the only ...

Few have not experienced the uncomfortable experience of circling city blocks for a parking space. Researchers at Xerox have designed algorithms and implemented dynamic parking systems in Los Angeles ...

With this week’s Sound and Visions series, Vulture explores the future of movies and the movie industry. We hope you’ll plug us directly into your cerebral cortex. The most exciting documentary films ...