Difference between ethnography and rootedness theory

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1. Ethnography, also known as ethnography, is a method of research and a text of writing in anthropology, which is based on fieldwork, founded on first-hand observation and participation in a population, about cultural descriptions as a means of understanding and interpreting societies and offering theoretical insights.

2. Rooted theory is a research method developed by Anselm Strauss and Barney Glaser, both scholars at Columbia University.

2. Rooted theory is a research method that uses a systematic process to analyze, investigate, and analyze a population's cultural and economic situation. It is a qualitative research method that uses systematic procedures to develop and inductively lead to a rooted theory about a phenomenon.

Extension:

1. Ethnography

Ethnography is both a research method and a process and result of cultural presentation. It utilizes fieldwork to provide a descriptive study of human society. Ethnography presents the results of a holistic approach to research that is based on the notion that the various qualities of a system may not be accurately understood individually by one another.

This style of writing is formally and historically associated with travelers' writing and colonial officials' reports. Certain academic traditions, particularly the constructivist and relativist paradigms, utilize ethnography as an important research method. Many cultural anthropologists consider ethnography to be the essence of cultural anthropology.

Ethnographies often refer to texts or images that describe the culture of a community. As a record for anthropologists or sociologists, it can be distinguished as a "macro-ethnography"; the study of complex societies, diverse communities, diverse social institutions, or a "single community" with diverse life patterns.

"Micro-ethnography" is the study of a single social situation of a small group of people in an exotic tribe or a middle-class community, or a single social system with a variety of social situations.

2. Grounded Theory

Grounded Theory (GT) is a qualitative research approach whose main purpose is to build theory from empirical data (Strauss, 1987:5). The researcher usually has no theoretical assumptions prior to the start of the study, and starts directly from actual observations, making empirical generalizations from primary sources and then moving up to a systematic theory.

This is a method of building substantive theories from the bottom up, i.e., searching for core concepts reflecting the essence of the phenomenon of things on the basis of systematic collection of information, and then constructing relevant social theories through the connection between these concepts.

The rooted theory must be supported by empirical evidence, but its main feature is not in its empirical nature, but in its abstraction of new concepts and ideas from empirical facts. In terms of philosophical thought, the Zaganian theoretical approach is based on a post-positivist paradigm that emphasizes the falsification of already constructed theories.

The rooted theory approach originated in a field observation by both Glass and Strauss (1965, 1968) in the 1960s in a hospital of the medical staff's handling of dying patients.

The development of this aspect is related to two areas of theoretical thought, from philosophy and sociology, respectively: one is American pragmatism, especially the thought of Dewey, G. Mead and Peirce, who emphasized the importance of action and focused on working with problematic situations and generating a methodology in problem solving.

Another influence came from the Chicago School of Sociology, which made extensive use of field observation and in-depth interviews to gather information , emphasizing the understanding of social interaction, social processes, and social change from the point of view of the actors.

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