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Critical Ethnography and Ecological Psychology: Conceptual and Empirical Explorations of a Synthesis

Houston Institute of Cultural Studies

Phil F. Carspecken

Indiana University

The authors present a conceptual analysis and a demonstration of the synthesis of twomethodologies, set in two very different academic traditions, in a single research designused to investigate an academic department: Carspecken's five-stage critical qualitativeresearch (CQR) and Barker's Behavior Setting Survey (BSS). They show that (a) conceptually,constructs associated with the BSS can be relocated within CQR as contributionsto its theory of social systems, and (b) methodologically, procedures associated withthe BSS contribute to the field studies of social systems. By employing features of bothmethodologies together, a broader, sharper methodological framework for research onhuman activities in relation to physical, social, and cultural contexts can be achieved.

Key Words: behavior setting • critical ethnography • ecological psychology • qualitative methodology

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