Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER): New Technologies for Ethnographic Data Collection, Storage, Dissemination

社会学民族志研究人员没有一个传统，使他们的数据格式，保持完整性，并允许重新分析。该提案建立在PI对纽约市无家可归的小贩、拾荒者和乞丐的获奖研究的基础上，其独特之处在于它将人类学中民族志电影的强大传统带到了社会学中的城市民族志中。 PI关于街头小贩、供应商和公众之间人行道互动的研究发表在一本名为《街头漫步》的书中。 PI使用数字技术来录制他的研究，现在将开发一个民族志电影，用于大学课堂教学民族志研究方法，城市社会学，不平等和其他社会学课程。 教学材料将包括一个超文本版本的人行道，允许学生“点击书中当前的照片，看到几十个其他镜头，提供进一步的洞察力，在书中使用的单一图像不能提供。" 该项目提供了完成和存档人种学研究的潜在程序，使其公开用于重新分析和教学。 具体来说，它创建了第一个基于数字光盘的超文本民族志。 该项目潜在的更广泛影响是双重的。它有可能提供更好地存档人种学研究的技术，从而更广泛地传播研究结果和方法。 第二，由于它将引起各种学者的兴趣（既因为它在教学、实质性和方法上的贡献），它可以作为数据收集、存档和分发的创造性战略的典范。该项目通过创建可复制的人种学数据，还加强了定性研究的科学基础。

Sociological ethnographic researchers do not have a tradition of making their data available in formats that preserve integrity and allows for re-analysis. The proposal builds upon the PI's award winning research on homeless vendors, scavengers and panhandlers in New York City and is unique in that it brings the strong tradition of ethnographic films in anthropology to urban ethnography in sociology. The PI's research on sidewalk interactions among street vendor, and their suppliers and the public is published in a book entitled, Streetwalk. The PI used digital technologies for audio recording his research and will now develop an ethnographic film for use in college classes for teaching ethnographic research method, urban sociology, inequality, and other sociology courses. The instructional materials will include a hypertext version of Sidewalk, allowing student to "click on current photos in the book and see dozens of other shots that provide further insight that the single images used in the book cannot provide." The project provides potential procedures for completing and archiving ethnographic research in a manner that makes it publicly available for re-analysis and teaching. Specifically, it creates the first digital cd rom-based hypertext ethnography. The project's potential broader impact is twofold. It could potentially provide techniques for better archiving ethnographic research, thereby allowing for a wider dissemination of research findings and methods. Second, because it will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars (both for its teaching, substantive and methodological contribution) it serves as a model for creative strategies for data collection, archiving and distribution. This project, by creating replicatable ethnographic data, also strengthens the scientific basis of qualitative research.