Methodology of Ethnography as One of the Qualitative Research Approaches; Using Sheikh's Guests Book

Ethnography, as one of the qualitative research approaches, has been widely spread over the past years and has been used in various areas of social, religious and educational research. This research approach, which has more than two thousand years of history, has been highly developed during the last hundred years, and inspire a new spirit to the qualitative research approach. Some have referred to it as an equation for a qualitative research approach. Ethnography, which is established on presence in the real world of the research community and a close relationship with research subjects, assumes that a research that occurs in the real world and examines the first-hand experience of the subject under study is more credible and reliable. Although, the findings of this research are not capable of extending to other cases, has a lot of depth and strength and opens the way for further research in similar cases. Using the documentary method and referring to the one of the most reputed ethnographic works, written by one of the American anthropologists and ethnographers, this research approach has been described and suggests steps for doing such research.