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Sage Knowledge Database has several chapters and encyclopedia entries on observation: structured, unstructured, participant, non-participant.
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This essay summarizes Smith et al.'s approach:
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Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) which comes out of the UK psychology: http://ipacommunity.tumblr.com/ and http://www.ipa.bbk.ac.uk/
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