Emergency services and technological governance

To read and gain value from this book, I first had to research some basic concepts.

Firstly, what is ethnography? Ethnography is a qualitative research method in which a researcher—an ethnographer—studies a particular social/cultural group intending to better understand it. Ethnography is both a process (e.g. one does ethnography) and a product (e.g. one writes an ethnography). In doing ethnography, an ethnographer actively participates in the group to gain an insider's perspective and to have experiences similar to those of the group members. In writing ethnography, an ethnographer creates an account of the group based on this participation, interviews with group members, and an analysis of group documents and artefacts (Kramer and Adams, 2017).

I then looked at the question, what is sociology? From the Oxford online dictionary, sociology is the study of the development structure and function of human society. An example of sociology includes studying the relationship between culture and society, examining movements or researching how communication affects human behaviour.