Jeff Ferrell's close ethnography of objects lost and found allowed him to develop a grounded understanding of contemporary consumption patterns. His research involved ________.
A) thousands of interviews with sanitation workers
B) an ethnography of men and women who appeared in TV ads
C) a narrative analysis of homeless youth
D) dumpster diving, trash picking, and street scavenging

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Jeff Ferrell's research involved dumpster diving, trash picking, and street scavenging, which allowed him to closely observe and analyze the objects people discard. This approach provided him with a unique perspective on consumption patterns by examining what is thrown away.

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