How to make an Ethnography?

Question

Yeah.Process,what to observe, how many people to observe,

Answer 1

Since you so clearly need the practice, try reposting this question in FORMAL English, the dialect in which an Ethnographic report would be written in?

Shame on you if you're a college student and your grasp of grammar and writing style is this bad!

Your tutor should have suggested what kind of groups or behaviours you could study and how large the group would be? Or this is given in your text book and you havnt read it properly!

Ask your tutor or reread the course materials!

When you're not working on that ethnographic report hit the English shelves and work on your language skills!

You dont even seem to read Strunk & White ?

Answer 2

The best thing to do is undergo maximum immersion in the group that you are analyzing and describing. Hang out where they hang out, do the activities that they do, and build relationships with people who are insiders in the community as much as you would if it were your own community. Talk to the people - if they do something or say something you don't understand, either ask them about it as they are doing it or ask someone about it after the fact. At a minimum, spend several hours watching them, observe what they are doing and try to understand what social rules they are following and what governs their behavior. The best thing to do would be to live amongst the folks you are observing, whether it is in the US or another country or territory. Great ethnographers spend years doing observations. If you are doing this for a class or a small project, do try to get at least 20 hours of observations.

Each day, or after each observation, devote at least an hour to write down very detailed field notes - detailed enough that someone else who read them could get a very good idea of what you saw and experienced down to nitty gritty sensory details. Also make records of your interpretations of what is going on and why you think people are behaving the ways that they are. This is called memo-ing and this is where ethnographers generate hypotheses. Validate those hypotheses by referring to other similar instances in your field notes, seeking out counterexamples, and recording future instances that could support or challenge your hypothesis. Also, collect any artifacts - tools or documents that are used or relevant. Take photographs, make sketches, or even record video if the folks who are being observed are okay with it.