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Reshaping ethnography: contemporary postpositivist possibilities

N Bruni

    Nursing Inquiry
    |March 1, 1995
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    This study explores postpositivist ethnography in nursing research, highlighting its potential to uncover hidden practices and challenge assumptions. It emphasizes the researcher

    Area of Science:

    • Nursing Research
    • Qualitative Methodologies
    • Sociology of Health

    Background:

    • Ethnography has been widely used in nursing research to understand health beliefs and practices.
    • Previous ethnographic studies aimed to inform nursing education, administration, and clinical practice.
    • A critical reassessment of traditional ethnographic approaches is emerging.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To explore the discourses and dilemmas of ethnography in nursing research.
    • To re-evaluate ethnographic practices in light of postpositivist challenges.
    • To introduce the concept of 'new ethnography' and its implications for knowledge generation.

    Main Methods:

    • Discourse analysis of ethnographic research in nursing.
    • Critical re-examination of foundational assumptions in ethnography.

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  • Exploration of postpositivist ethnography as a research paradigm.

    • Main Results:

    • Postpositivist ethnography views the research area as a social and political field.
    • The researcher is an integral part of data generation, implicated alongside informants.
    • Challenges arise regarding textual authority and whose voice constructs the research narrative.

    Conclusions:

    • Nursing academics must critically evaluate new research practices before adoption.
    • Failure to critique may lead to the generation of knowledge detrimental to the discipline.
    • New ethnography offers a methodology to reveal hidden practices and challenge researchers' assumptions.