What is the difference between ethnography and Autoethnography?

Autoethnography differs from ethnography, a social research method employed by anthropologists and sociologists, in that autoethnography embraces and foregrounds the researcher’s subjectivity rather than attempting to limit it, as in empirical research.

Why do we need to study other cultures?

It Promotes Understanding. Lots of problems can arise from misunderstandings, especially because we live in a multicultural world. By learning and understanding different cultures you understand why people do things the way they do. When you identify with other people, you sympathize with their situation.

What is the relationship between the ethnographer and the culture they are studying?

Ethnographers seek to gain an emic perspective, or the ‘native’s point of view’ of a specific culture (Hammersley and Atkinson, 2007). This means that they try to look at the culture under study from the inside; through the meanings that the members of that culture live with.

What is ethnographic method of research?

Ethnographic methods are a research approach where you look at people in their cultural setting, with the goal of producing a narrative account of that particular culture, against a theoretical backdrop. How they interact with one another, and with their social and cultural environment.

Why Ethnography is considered both a science and an art?

Ethnography is considered both a science and an art by how the approach studies cultures. It uses many data collection methods that record numerical, historical, and experiential data in order to analyze and express the cultures of the groups of people being studied.

Is it necessary to study your own culture and practice it?

Learning to Acknowledge and Understand Other Cultures by Recognizing Your Own. Awareness of our own culture is important, because it can keep us from projecting our values onto others. Projection, in this sense, means the tendency to think other people are doing something for the same reasons we would.

What is the study of other cultures?

Cultural anthropologists study how people who share a common cultural system organize and shape the physical and social world around them, and are in turn shaped by those ideas, behaviors, and physical environments. Cultural anthropology is hallmarked by the concept of culture itself.