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	Fältbaserad innehållsanalys	Etnografi
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativa metoder
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1987	c. 1922 (Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific)
Upphovsperson	David L. Altheide	Bronisław Malinowski (modern ethnography); rooted in 19th-century anthropology
Typ	Qualitative analytic approach	Qualitative fieldwork tradition
Ursprungskälla	Altheide, D. L. (1987). Ethnographic content analysis. Qualitative Sociology, 10(1), 65–77.	Hammersley, M. & Atkinson, P. (2019). Ethnography: Principles in Practice (4th ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138504462
Alias	field content analysis, naturalistic content analysis, ethnographic content analysis, ECA	Etnografi, participant observation, fieldwork, ethnographic research
Närliggande	6	5
Sammanfattning	Field-based content analysis is a qualitative analytic approach that systematically examines documents, artifacts, and texts encountered or produced within a natural field setting. Originally formulated by David Altheide as ethnographic content analysis (ECA), it blends the systematic rigor of traditional content analysis with the reflexive, iterative logic of ethnographic inquiry, allowing the researcher to interact continuously with the data and revise analytic categories as new meaning emerges from the field.	Ethnography is a qualitative research tradition in which a researcher immerses themselves in a social group or community over an extended period — typically three to six months or longer — to study its culture, values, and behaviours in their natural setting. Originating in social and cultural anthropology, and consolidated as a rigorous method by Bronisław Malinowski in the early twentieth century, ethnography produces rich, contextualised accounts of how people live, work, and make meaning together.