Autoethnography

How it is used

Personal narrative must contribute to cultural analysis.

Example sentences

1. Her autoethnography connects doctoral isolation with the culture of academic competition.

   Personal experience becomes evidence for cultural interpretation.

2. The review asked how this autoethnography protects relatives mentioned in the narrative.

   Self-focused research can still reveal other people's lives.

Common collocations

• write an autoethnography
• critical autoethnography

Related terms

• qualitativeDescribing research that studies experiences, meanings and behavior through words, images or observation rather than numbers, often with smaller groups of people.
• research ethicsprinciples and standards that guide responsible research, including honesty, participant protection, and proper handling of data

More terms: Research Design

• research
• research question
• hypothesis
• methodology
• quantitative
• sample
• participant
• questionnaire
• case study
• carry out
• validity
• reliability