2016-02-032016-02-032014-12SOUZA, Mauricio Rodrigues de. Uma questão de método: origens, limites e possibilidades da etnografia para a psicologia social. Psicologia USP, São Paulo, v. 25, n. 3, p. 307-316, dez. 2014. Disponível em: <http://www.scielo.br/pdf/pusp/v25n3/0103-6564-pusp-25-03-0307.pdf>. Acesso em: 2 fev. 2016. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0103-656420130038>.0103-6564https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/7078Focusing the subject of research methods in social psychology, this article gravitates around three objectives: to define in detail some of the main characteristics of ethnography, to review the historical background of its origins as a scientifically legitimated practice and, finally, to discuss its utilization nowadays. As a result, it emphasizes not only the limits, but also the possibilities of ethnographical practice, sustaining that the experience of strangeness that traditionally characterized it still carries the dynamics and the critical potential which are necessary to maintain in movement the thought about alterity.porAcesso AbertoPsicologia socialEtnografiaMetodologia da pesquisaUma questão de método: origens, limites e possibilidades da etnografia para a psicologia socialA question of method: Origins, limits and possibilities of ethnography to social psychologyUne question de méthode: origines, limites et possibilités de l'ethnographie pour la psychologie socialeUna cuestión de método: orígenes, límites y posibilidades de la etnografía para la psicología socialArtigo de Periódico