Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods & Analysis

June 2025 Live Online Short Course

Introduction to Ethnography

Dr. Mike Pratt

Session I: June 2-5 | 10:00 AM EDT – 3:00 PM EDT

Course Description

The purpose of this workshop is to aid qualitative researchers in designing and implementing ethnography or a qualitative research project that includes some ethnographic elements (e.g. ethnographic interviews). The course will be comprised of three major sections: (a) designing an ethnographic study; (b) ethnographic skill building, including interviews, observation, and data analysis; and (c) writing and publishing your ethnographic research. The course will combine readings, “tales from the field” / discussions regarding the unique tensions and challenges of doing ethnographic research, and hands—on learning. Participants are invited to bring samples of their own data to the session. However, no experience with qualitative methods is required prior to taking this course.

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Meet the Instructor

Michael G. Pratt (Ph.D. University of Michigan) is the O’Conner Family Professor in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, and is an Academy of Management Fellow. His research draws heavily from theories of identity and identification, meaning and meaningful work, emotion, intuition, and trust. His work has appeared in various outlets, including the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, OBHDP, and Organization Science, as well as in numerous edited books. Although he has published research that utilizes lab research and surveys, much of his work is qualitative in nature. His work on qualitative methodology has appeared in Organizational Research Methods, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, as well as in book chapters and journal editorials. Mike is currently an outgoing associate editor at the Administrative Science Quarterly, and served as the inaugural qualitative research editor at the Academy of Management Journal.

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