Ethnographic research's rich heritage focused on some of these cultural phenomena. For example, prior to the feminist movement, women entering traditional marriages expected inequality in marital relationships. This tacit knowledge about gender roles and expectations would be manifested in various forms of the women's behavior. Incorporating ethnographic questioning within the context of the career counseling interview aims at revealing aspects of such cultural knowledge. Descriptive questions elicit clients' thoughts on some aspect of their culture or world.
Structural questions generate the domains clients use to describe their worlds.
In conversation, people link key terms and phrases using words which indicate semantic relationships. Terms which convey semantic relationships afford a means for discovering connections among aspects of experience. Contrast questions are used to discover the meanings of, and the relationships among, the terms that clients have already mentioned. Clients are invited to describe the difference between two terms or phrases. Clients are invited to describe distinctions between three terms or phrases.