Case Andrew D, Todd Nathan R, Kral Michael J
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA,
Am J Community Psychol. 2014 Sep;54(1-2):60-71. doi: 10.1007/s10464-014-9648-0.
Community psychology recognizes the need for research methods that illuminate context, culture, diversity, and process. One such method, ethnography, has crossed into multiple disciplines from anthropology, and indeed, community psychologists are becoming community ethnographers. Ethnographic work stands at the intersection of bridging universal questions with the particularities of people and groups bounded in time, geographic location, and social location. Ethnography is thus historical and deeply contextual, enabling a rich, in-depth understanding of communities that is aligned with the values and goals of community psychology. The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the potential of ethnography for community psychology and to encourage its use within the field as a method to capture culture and context, to document process, and to reveal how social change and action occur within and through communities. We discuss the method of ethnography, draw connections to community psychology values and goals, and identify tensions from our experiences doing ethnography. Overall, we assert that ethnography is a method that resonates with community psychology and present this paper as a resource for those interested in using this method in their research or community activism.
社区心理学认识到需要有能够阐明背景、文化、多样性和过程的研究方法。民族志就是这样一种方法，它已从人类学跨越到多个学科，事实上，社区心理学家正在成为社区民族志学者。民族志研究处于将普遍问题与受时间、地理位置和社会位置限制的个人及群体的特殊性相联系的交叉点上。因此，民族志具有历史性且深深扎根于具体情境，能够对社区进行丰富、深入的理解，这与社区心理学的价值观和目标相一致。本文的目的是阐明民族志对社区心理学的潜在价值，并鼓励在该领域将其作为一种方法加以运用，以捕捉文化和背景、记录过程，并揭示社会变革和行动如何在社区内部及通过社区发生。我们讨论民族志方法，将其与社区心理学的价值观和目标建立联系，并从我们进行民族志研究的经验中识别出存在的矛盾之处。总体而言，我们断言民族志是一种与社区心理学相契合的方法，并将本文作为资源呈现给那些有兴趣在其研究或社区行动主义中运用该方法的人。
