Short essay: The risks of choosing practice theory for ethnographic research: experiences of epistemological and methodological failures

The risks of choosing practice theory for ethnographic research: experiences of epistemological and methodological failures You go in and you say hello, you ask, as I'm normally going out to the coffee room, "You want me to make you anything?"They always say no, but they appreciate it being offered . . .You overtly start [the operation] by saying the things that would be particularly good for anyone who's getting familiar with a speciality, the nature of that, it seems to take a lot of pressure off their shoulders.to . . .Try and recognise when things have been done well."There, that's fantastic delivery of an instrument", or "It's always lovely operating here because everything's so well planned out in advance".He commented that the difference was that the informal routine, the laughing together, admitting problems with the processes, and so forth, demonstrated "humanity"showing understanding and kindness towards other people (The Cambridge Dictionary, 2010).What is the relevance of this observation here?As Jemielniak and Kostera (2010) remarked, accounts of research blunders and failures are rarely published.What is published is often a polished, highly-honed article, that lacks the warts and all elements, the humanity,