Social media is less about technology and more about…

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was…

— George Lucas

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

— W. H. Auden

Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one…

— Arthur Kleinman

“...tales in search of an excuse for their telling.”

— John Van Maanen

If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first…

— William Graham Sumner

I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has…

— Ari Marcopoulos

“In marked contrast to the relaxed, typically Latin attitude of the Dominicans the Protestant missionaries were still proceeding at full blast with the fight…

— Philippe Descola

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

— Clifford Geertz

“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines of data…

— Clifford Geertz

Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior…

— Marvin Harris

“Yes, it is true that one generally needs to speak to the members of the key audience for a product or service. But as…

— Patricia L. Sunderland

I come from a specific tradition of sociology, which is urban ethnography.

— Matthew Desmond

Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in…

— Patricia Leavy

“All social interactions require some loss of freedom.”

— Erol Ozan

When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach…

— Rebecca Goldstein