Ethnographic methods for research on aging: making use of a fundamental toolkit for understanding everyday life

摘要: Abstract Ethnography and participant observation have long made important contributions to social scientific understandingsof aging the life course. For instance, classic contemporary field studies examined in urban enclaves; charted how culture identity shape growing older; shown institutions designed serve elders are organized; explained is shaped by reveals broader patterns of inequality. Yet prominence research lags behind other methodological approaches studying aging. This chapter explains why a fuller integration ethnography not only useful, but necessary, for advancing understandings Specifically, it: (1) ethnographic fundamental science; (2) articulates goals uses as method; (3) illustrates can advance key topics aging; (4) provides examples ethnographies that do so; (5) offers suggestions encouraging high-quality future on