![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What a police detective might say to a fact checker about an arrest may be very different from how he or she might have behaved during that arrest. As we all know, what a person says is not necessarily what he or she does. A cardinal principle of ethnographic fieldwork is this: listen to what your subjects are saying, but pay special attention to what they do. During fieldwork ethnographers invariably interview many people, but they also participate in the lives of their subjects, developing an interpretative sensitivity that can only be acquired over long periods of time. They don't visit people for a week or two or call them up on the phone and then and write about them rather they live in their subject communities for long periods of time-often many years during which they establish and reinforce a network of social relationships-relationships that underscore the complex social, economic and emotional realities of contemporary social life. Ethnographic practices: Ethnographers engage in fieldwork. ![]()
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