ABSTRACT
One of the challenges of attempting to do exploratory work for deep and sophisticated understanding of the complexities and dynamics of social class is the persistent concern with doing enough to make the study and the subsequent analysis as robust as possible. The chapter presents the ethnographic method to better understand the Swedish socio-cultural context. Ethnography was employed to aid identifying the materials to help understand social class dynamics in cultural forms beyond the life history interviews. Ethnographic approaches in scholarly research originate from cultural anthropology and social phenomenology, disciplines that are based on the principle of the "analysis of the world of everyday life". The ethnography and accounts represented a complex picture of the way life histories featured with 'race', ethnicity, social democracy, and equality and fairness in the distribution of chances. All of these shaped their perception of common sense and conception of Swedish society.
