Organizer: Elizabeth Hansen, Harvard U.
Organizer: Curtis Kwinyen Chan, Harvard U.
Organizer: Julia DiBenigno, Yale School of Management
Organizer: Michel Anteby, Boston U.
Panelist: Mark DeRond, U. of Cambridge
Panelist: Curtis LeBaron, Brigham Young U.
Panelist: Renee Rottner, U. of California, Santa Barbara
Panelist: Sarah Kaplan, U. of Toronto
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| This professional development workshop seeks to explore the implications of how organizational ethnography relates to and captures the duality of meaning-making as both cognition and interaction. Ethnography has long been associated with the cognitive aspect of meaning-making through its link to the concept of culture. Yet at the same time, ethnography goes beyond just cognition to include the interactions, practices, artifacts and spaces that make up life in a social setting. As other methodologies are increasingly employed to study or “measure” meaning, it is worth revisiting the distinctiveness of the ethnographic method to capture the duality of meaning-making as both cognition and interaction. We seek to encourage the exploration of this theme in current ethnographic projects by discussing various perspectives on the link between ethnography and the duality of meaning-making. Using an interactive format, the workshop will address two primary questions. First, what are the strategies (e.g., research designs, methodological procedures or tactics) and implications (e.g., theoretical considerations, methodological strengths and limitations) of utilizing ethnography to document meaning-making? Second, what are the strategies and implications of using ethnography to document the duality of meaning-making as both cognition and interaction, and to theorize the relationships between the two? |