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Meta-Ethnography
Synthesizing Qualitative Studies
Av George W. Noblit, R . Dwight Hare
Häftad, 1988
633 kr
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How can ethnographic studies be generalized, in contrast to concentrating on the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a new method for synthesizing from qualitative studies: meta-ethnography. After citing the criteria to be used in comparing qualitative research projects, the authors define the …
Writing Strategies
Reaching Diverse Audiences
Häftad, 1990
715 kr
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You've finished your research and have reached the point of writing it up. You know your findings are important both for your colleagues and for a more general public. But how do you write this material to appeal to different audiences? In Writing Strategies , Laurel Richardson shows you how. …
Studying Organizational Symbolism
What, How, Why?
Av Michael Owen Jones, Michael Owen Jones
Häftad, 1996
715 kr
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Gaining a better understanding of the way organizations work through the study of the symbols connected to them is the subject of Studying Organizational Symbolism. Michael Owen Jones briefly discusses the most obvious symbolic aspects of organizations--corporate logos, office sizes, use of …
Focus Groups as Qualitative Research
Av David L Morgan, David Morgan
Inbunden, 1997
1529 kr
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From the First Edition: "Continues the high quality of previously published volumes in the Sage series on qualitative research methods. . . . Useful and instructive. . . . David L. Morgan deals with a number of practical issues concerning the conduct of focus groups, such as the degree of moderator …
Focus Groups as Qualitative Research
Häftad, 1997
715 kr
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From the First Edition: "Continues the high quality of previously published volumes in the Sage series on qualitative research methods. . . . Useful and instructive. . . . David L. Morgan deals with a number of practical issues concerning the conduct of focus groups, such as the degree of moderator …
The Ethnographer's Method
Häftad, 1998
715 kr
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The most realistic and level-headed discussion of doing fieldwork that I have read in years. No aspriing ethnographer should be without it. -Stephen R. Barley, Stanford University, past editor of Administrative Science Quarterly "I wish every author of a qualitative submission to ASQ would read it …
The Life Story Interview
Häftad, 1998
715 kr
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First-person narratives are a fundamental tool of the qualitative researcher. One of the latest volumes in the Qualitative Research Methods series, The Life Story Interview provides specific suggestions and guidelines for preparing and executing a life story interview. Author Robert Atkinson, …
A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies
Av Barbara Czarniawska, Barbara Czarniawska
Häftad, 1998
690 kr
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The latest volume in the Qualitative Research Methods series, A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies presents a specific approach to organization studies and provides illustrations of its use. Inspired by the works of Bakhtin, Eco, Rorty, and Silverman, author Barbara Czarniawska asserts that …
Doing Team Ethnography
Warnings and Advice
Av Kenneth Cleland Erickson, Donald D. Stull
Inbunden, 1997
1471 kr
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Whether the goals of research are applied or more abstract, team research has been an important aspect of ethnography. In Doing Team Ethnography, the latest volume in the Qualitative Research Methods series, authors Ken Erickson and Donald Stull examine the myriad of challenges and opportunities in …
Doing Team Ethnography
Warnings and Advice
Av Kenneth Cleland Erickson, Donald D. Stull
Häftad, 1997
715 kr
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Whether the goals of research are applied or more abstract, team research has been an important aspect of ethnography. In Doing Team Ethnography, the latest volume in the Qualitative Research Methods series, authors Ken Erickson and Donald Stull examine the myriad of challenges and opportunities in …
Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis
Häftad, 1999
715 kr
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This book in the QRM series is designed for a wide variety of research methods courses taught in various departments. It will be of most interest to those in Public Policy, Political Science, and Public Administration departments, but will also be of interest to researchers in Sociology, …
Gender Issues in Ethnography
Av Carol A. B. Warren, Jennifer Kay Hackney
Inbunden, 2000
1529 kr
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This Second Edition summarizes the state of the art of gender issues in fieldwork both in anthropology and sociology. Warren shows how the researcher's gender affects both the fieldwork relationships and the production of ethnography. The authors focus is more empirical than theoretical; using …
Gender Issues in Ethnography
Av Carol A. B. Warren, Jennifer Kay Hackney
Häftad, 2000
690 kr
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This Second Edition summarizes the state of the art of gender issues in fieldwork both in anthropology and sociology. Warren shows how the researcher's gender affects both the fieldwork relationships and the production of ethnography. The authors focus is more empirical than theoretical; using …
Systematic Self-Observation
A Method for Researching the Hidden and Elusive Features of Everyday Social Life
Av Noelie Maria Rodriguez, Alan Lincoln Ryave
Häftad, 2002
715 kr
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Systematic self-observation (SSO) is a valuable research method used by social scientists to gather information about those social actions that are hidden, restricted or subjective. The advantage of using self-observation over another research method, such as interviewing, for these types of …
Discourse Analysis
Investigating Processes of Social Construction
Av Nelson Phillips, Cynthia Hardy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1529 kr
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Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction is the first book to provide a concise, straightforward guide for students and researchers who are interested in understanding and using discourse analysis. The authors reflect on the practice of analyzing discourse and the …
Discourse Analysis
Investigating Processes of Social Construction
Av Nelson Phillips, Cynthia Hardy m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
715 kr
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Discourse Analysis: Investigating Processes of Social Construction is the first book to provide a concise, straightforward guide for students and researchers who are interested in understanding and using discourse analysis. The authors reflect on the practice of analyzing discourse and the …
Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences
Av Robert Alan Stebbins, Robert A. Stebbins
Häftad, 2001
715 kr
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Guided by the precept that to understand any phenomenon well, it is necessary to start by looking at it in broad, nonspecialized terms, Robert A Stebbins takes the reader through the process of exploratory research in an easy-to-read style providing the student or researcher with a complete …
Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
Av Jerome Kirk, Marc L. Miller m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
715 kr
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Authors Jerome Kirk and Marc L. Miller define what is—and what is not—qualitative research. They suggest that the use of numbers in the process of recording and analyzing observations is less important than that the research should involve sustained interaction with the people being studied, in …
Speaking of Ethnography
Häftad, 1986
715 kr
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Challenging the assumed usefulness of conventional scientific procedures as the most appropriate models for the study of human affairs, author Michael Agar continues the premise set forth in his popular work, The Professional Stranger. Informed by a hermeneutic and phenomenological tradition, …
Linking Data
Av Nigel G. Fielding, Jane L. Fielding m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
715 kr
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While there are many textbooks and manuals on the methodology of both quantitative and qualitative research designs, most focus chiefly on data collection rather than data analysis. Further, the literature on the interrelation of data gained from using quantitative and qualitative methods is …
Membership Roles in Field Research
Av Peter N. Adler, Peter Adler
Häftad, 1987
690 kr
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In settings involving subcultures and deviant groups, the ethnographer must assume an active role in securing the trust of the group, thus becoming a participant in his or her object of study. The choice of role-from detached observer to complete member-affects the types of data used and how the …
Semiotics and Fieldwork
Av Peter K. Manning, Peter K. Manning
Häftad, 1987
715 kr
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Ethnographic fieldwork and formal linguistic analysis have traditionally been thought to be diametric opposites. But in this provocative analysis, these diverse methods of qualitative research are demonstrated to be complementary. The author reveals that the formalism of semiotics adds breadth and …
The Clinical Perspective in Fieldwork
Av Edgar H. Schein, Edgar H. Schein
Häftad, 1987
715 kr
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Most writing on qualitative research deals with the role of the ethnographer in a given culture, organization, or some other setting. The ethnographer is an invisible recorder of the nature of this setting, unobtrusive and not affecting the daily activities in the place studied. But not all …
Meta-Ethnography
Synthesizing Qualitative Studies
Av George W. Noblit, R . Dwight Hare
Inbunden, 1988
1529 kr
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How can ethnographic studies be generalized, in contrast to concentrating on the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a new method for synthesizing from qualitative studies: meta-ethnography. After citing the criteria to be used in comparing qualitative research projects, the authors define the …
Ethnostatistics
Qualitative Foundations for Quantitative Research
Av ROBERT P GEPHART, Robert P. Gephart
Häftad, 1988
715 kr
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Averages, ratios, means, modes, medians, tests of significance and best fit...these are now part of our everyday discourse. Yet statistics seemingly threaten to bury us under their sheer weight. Indeed, social science contributes a good deal to the proliferation of statistics while contributing …
Systematic Data Collection
Av Susan C. Weller, A. Kimball Romney m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
690 kr
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The process of collecting accurate data through interviewing, questionnaires, and other methods has not always been clear. However, data collection in field settings can be done in a structured, systematic and scientific way. These authors show us how. First, they focus on the importance of finding …
Microcomputer Applications in Qualitative Research
Av Bryan Pfaffenberger, Bryan Pfaffenberger
Häftad, 1988
690 kr
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Microcomputer Applications in Qualitative Research is a timely and innovative volume offering a sophisticated examination of one of the many uses of computers in the social sciences. In this insightful volume Pfaffenberger explores the world of personal computing in social science research, …
The Long Interview
Av Grant McCracken, Grant McCracken
Häftad, 1988
715 kr
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The Long Interview provides a systematic guide to the theory and methods of the long qualitative interview or intensive interviewing. It gives a clear explanation of one of the most powerful tools of the qualitative researcher. The volume begins with a general overview of the character and purpose …
Interpretive Biography
Av Norman K. Denzin, Norman K. Denzin
Inbunden, 1989
2040 kr
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Like all writing, biographies are interpretive. They require no less than organizing into text the chaos of human existence. Interpretive Biography Norman Denzin combines one of the oldest techniques in the social sciences and humanities with one of the newest. Bringing in elements of postmodernism …
Knowing Children
Participant Observation with Minors
Av Gary Alan Fine, Kent L. Sandstrom m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
715 kr
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When studying children too often it is assumed that "our" view of the world will be their view of the world. Knowing Children explores this lofty assumption and explodes various myths that researchers commonly hold about children. Using the assumptions that minors are knowledgeable about their …
