ethnography

To notice that a bunch of backpackers sit on the steps is ethnography.

Methods and concepts of anthropology and ethnography apply to groups of various sizes, not just to large societies.

Very interesting -- this is a superb example of why ethnography is a very important complement to quantitative data.

Absolutely, this is known as user ethnography and has been around for a long time.

There is a place for ethnography, fieldwork, and other gonzo social science.

Read any ethnography of any stone-age people from the past several hundred years and you'll find social pair-bonding without any religious or state sanction.

The latter case seems more like sociology or ethnography to me, economists tend to not think so much of people as people after all.

So perhaps a nice in-between method, such as leveraging research methods that design researchers use, like ethnography's, to search for meaning after the fact.

I'm just saying I find it very hard to get upset, let alone want to disband the entire field of ethnography.

An ethnography on a single evangelical church has been published.

It's a great case of ethnography and which-hunting, but the omission (presumably intention to keep the sensationalist value of the piece) make it fails as an investigation.

There is an ethnography for that(physics geeks) too.

Greaber’s best book is his ethnography “Lost People” and it’s one of his least read works.

As per the debate in the article about "is it ethnography?", I prefer the term "ethnographically-inspired fieldwork".

But they also have a lot of high level technical analysis (market size, cost structure) and a ton of things unrelated (finance, management, etc.) What I was taught as the "design process" is actually much closer to what people study in anthropology and ethnography than business school.

When there are groups of people who, as the subtitle of this article says, are "reshaping our future in their image," I like it when good writers do some ethnography, some deep hanging out, and give me insights about what our future might look like.

Ethnography lacks these and thus it is not science.