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Community studies is an academic field drawing on both sociology and anthropology and the social research methods of ethnography and participant observation in the study of community. In academic settings around the world, community studies is variously a sub-discipline of anthropology or sociology, or an independent discipline.
The journal moved in 2006 to the University of California eScholarship Repository. Murdock also founded the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University in the 1940s. HRAF now maintains all the underlying ethnographic documents used by Murdock and White to code the cultures in the SCCS, in addition to the sources for most of the more ...
Ethnographers study and interpret culture, its universalities, and its variations through the ethnographic study based on fieldwork. An ethnography is a specific kind of written observational science which provides an account of a particular culture, society, or community.
Sociologus: German anthropological journal; published since 1925 by Duncker & Humblot Publishers, Berlin; Ethnography: Interdisciplinary journal that bridges sociology and anthropology and concentrates on the ethnographic study of social and cultural change
The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index.According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 0.862, ranking it 32nd out of 40 journals in the category "Urban Studies" [1] and 93rd out of 146 journals in the category "Sociology".
Cross-cultural studies, sometimes called holocultural studies or comparative studies, is a specialization in anthropology and sister sciences such as sociology, psychology, economics, political science that uses field data from many societies through comparative research to examine the scope of human behavior and test hypotheses about human behavior and culture.
Cross-cultural (comparative ethnographic) studies can provide archaeological indicators of cultural and other (e.g., physical and social environmental) features. Using those indicators, researchers could test many causal ideas about the major events in cultural evolution and devolution on the time-series data in the archaeological record.
Symbolic interactionists are particularly interested autoethnography, and examples can be found in a number of scholarly journals, such as Qualitative Inquiry, the Journal of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and the Journal of Humanistic Ethnography.