My Reflections on Egan-Robertson and Willet's article "Students as Ethnographers, Thinking, and Doing Ethnography"

How is ethnographic research related to sociolinguistic inquiry?

Sociolinguistic studies look into the ways in which people use language in a variety of social contexts, as well different variations of a language, such as African American English, and examine the ways in which such dialects are considered inferior and improper to use compared to Standard American English. Sociolinguistic research has shown that "nondominant
dialects are rule-governed, systematic" (4).

Sociolinguistic ethnography is a term for the ethnography of communication.

Some key issues of this article are as follows:

Ethnography has three goals: 1) "to describe in detail and interpret the cultural life of particular social groups; 2) to contribute to our general knowledge about the kinds of life-worlds humans create and the nature of the cultural processes operating to create these worlds, and 3) to help people imagine and create better worlds"

Ethography has three characteristics: 1) "it is holistic, contextual, and comparative; 2) it is systematic, but uses multiple, nonstandard, and recursive methods; and 3) it elicits the group member view of reality."

My question is: How does a group member's view of reality can be a true representation of what reality actually is?