Ethnography in Community Psychology: Promises and Tensions
Ethnography in Community Psychology: Promises and Tensions
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DOI：
10.1007/s10464-014-9648-0
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发表时间：
2014-09-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Kral, Michael J.
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作者：
Case, Andrew D.;Todd, Nathan R.;Kral, Michael J.
社区心理学认识到需要研究方法来阐明背景、文化、多样性和过程。其中一种方法，民族志，已经跨越了人类学的多个学科，事实上，社区心理学家正在成为社区民族志学家。民族志工作站在连接普遍问题与个人和群体的特殊性在时间，地理位置和社会位置的交叉点。因此，民族志具有历史和深刻的背景，能够丰富、深入地理解与社区心理学的价值观和目标相一致的社区。本文的目的是阐明民族志在社区心理学方面的潜力，并鼓励其在该领域的使用，作为一种捕捉文化和背景的方法，记录过程，揭示社会变革和行动是如何在社区内部和通过社区发生的。我们讨论了民族志的方法，与社区心理学价值观和目标建立了联系，并从我们从事民族志的经验中确定了紧张关系。总的来说，我们认为民族志是一种与社区心理学产生共鸣的方法，并将本文作为有兴趣在研究或社区活动中使用这种方法的人的资源。
Community psychology recognizes the need for research methods that illuminate context, culture, diversity, and process. One such method, ethnography, has crossed into multiple disciplines from anthropology, and indeed, community psychologists are becoming community ethnographers. Ethnographic work stands at the intersection of bridging universal questions with the particularities of people and groups bounded in time, geographic location, and social location. Ethnography is thus historical and deeply contextual, enabling a rich, in-depth understanding of communities that is aligned with the values and goals of community psychology. The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the potential of ethnography for community psychology and to encourage its use within the field as a method to capture culture and context, to document process, and to reveal how social change and action occur within and through communities. We discuss the method of ethnography, draw connections to community psychology values and goals, and identify tensions from our experiences doing ethnography. Overall, we assert that ethnography is a method that resonates with community psychology and present this paper as a resource for those interested in using this method in their research or community activism.