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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810900603321

Autore

Schensul Stephen L

Titolo

Initiating ethnographic research : a mixed methods approach / / Stephen L. Schensul, Jean J. Schensul, and Margaret D. LeCompte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : AltaMira Press, c2013

ISBN

0-7591-2202-4

1-299-18434-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Collana

Ethnographer's toolkit ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

SchensulJean J

LeCompteMargaret Diane

Disciplina

305.80072

Soggetti

Ethnology - Methodology

Ethnology - Research

Ethnology - Fieldwork

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; LIST OF EXAMPLES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. INITIATING ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH: MODELS, METHODS, AND MEASUREMENT; CHAPTER 2. SELECTING A RESEARCH SITE AND FOCUS; CHAPTER 3. PREPARING FOR CHALLENGES IN THE FIELD; CHAPTER 4. THE ETHNOGRAPHER AS THEORIST: INTRODUCTION TO MODELING MIDRANGE THEORY; CHAPTER 5. CONSTRUCTING FORMATIVE RESEARCH MODELS; CHAPTER 6. OPERATIONALIZATION AND MEASUREMENT; CHAPTER 7. MIXED METHODS MODELS, MEASURES, AND CASE EXAMPLES; CHAPTER 8. MODELING ETHNOGRAPHIC INTERVENTION APPROACHES; REFERENCES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND ARTISTS

Sommario/riassunto

Book 2 explores in depth the many critical issues that ethnographic researchers need to consider before going to the field and in the earliest stages of the field experience.