Ethnographic research, such as observing the setup of a catheter, often leads toideation. But it can also lead to significant device design. In 2001, William Reese and I wrote an article about the use ...

Veterans can be found in every community throughout our nation. Understanding their health care needs is important to ensuring they receive the care they deserve. OptumServeTM, the federal health ...

A transparency movement has be gun urging researchers to publicize their data in order to ease replication and accountability. Some ethnographers have also begun arguing that researchers should unmask ...

Quantitative methodologies, which rely on representative surveys and administrative data, drive much of the policy research on poverty and mobility in the United States. Qualitative research employs ...

Ethnographic research is gaining popularity as a means to better understand the motivations, behaviors, and attitudes of households toward the challenges they face. While in some ways similar to ...

Anthropological research was traditionally conducted by foreign researchers in 'exotic' places. However, the trend changed over the years due to various reasons such as less funding for research ...

Late last month, what began as a book review in an obscure publication blew up into a major controversy that tarnished sociology’s most-buzzed-about young star. At issue: whether the sociologist, ...