Japan Journal of Sport Sociology
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The Possibility and the Attempt of Clinical Practice with an Inquiring Mind:
Toward Ethnography Related to Living
Kazumasa MATSUZAWA
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2014 Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages 39-52

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 Ethnography is a means of understanding people’s lives, societies and cultures by visiting places where we do not usually live and staying there for a long time. But we are already familiar with some aspects of ethnography in daily life because we always have new experiences and try to understand the new worlds of other people. Therefore, we could describe ethnography in a broader sense as “ethnography related to living”, while we could refer to ethnography written by a researcher as “ethnography related to research”. Clinical practice with an inquiring mind means that professionals objectify reality and identify problems and consider them deeply in a clinical setting. Ethnography is a very important practical attitude and a method for all kinds of professionals. I think that “ethnography related to living” is a necessary method of carrying out clinical practice with an inquiring mind. In this context I discussed a conceptual method and a practical one on ethnography. And I discussed how to describe reality and how to apply sequence analysis, which is a kind of qualitative analysis for ethnography.

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