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Handbook of ethnography

Author: Paul Atkinson; et al
Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"How do you collect and analyze social data in the form of texts (interviews and documents), images (photographs, film and television footage), and sounds (noise and music)? This text shows students which methods are most suitable for particular research problems and what is good practice for each method." "Focusing on the pursuit of quality in social research, the authors: explore different ways of collecting and  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paul Atkinson; et al
ISBN: 076195824X 9780761958246 9781412946063 1412946069
OCLC Number: 47863293
Description: xviii, 507 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: The Chicago school of ethnography / Mary Jo Deegan -- Symbolic interactionism and ethnography / Paul Rock -- Currents of cultural fieldwork / James D. Faubioin -- British social anthropology / Sharon Macdonald -- Into the community / Lodewijk Brunt -- Mass-observation's fieldwork methods / Liz Stanley -- Orientalism / Julie Marcus -- Ethnomethodology and ethnography / Melvin Pollner and Robert M. Emerson -- Phenomenology and ethnography / Ilja Mason -- Semiotics, semantics and ethnography / Peter K. Manning -- Grounded theory in ethnography / Kathy Charmaz and Richard G. Mitchell -- The ethnography of health and medicine / Michael Bloor -- Ethnographic research in educational settings / Tuula Gordon, Janet Holand and Elina Lahelma -- Ethnography and the study of deviance / Dick Hobbs -- Ethnographies of work and the work of ethnographers / Vicki Smith -- Ethnography and the development of science and technology studies / David Hess -- Ethnography in the study of children and childhood / Allison James -- Ethnography and material culture / Christopher Tilley -- Ethnography : a critical turn in cultural studies / Joost Van Loon -- The ethnography of communication / Elizabeth Keating -- Technologies of realism? : ethnographic uses photographyahy and film / Mike Ball and Greg Smith -- Ethnography as work : career socialization, settings and problems / Christopher Wellin and Gary Alan Fine -- The ethics of ethnography / Elizabeth Murphy and Robert Dingwall -- Participant observation and fieldnotes / Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz and Linda L. Shaw -- Ethnographic interviewing / Barbara Sherman Heyl -- Narrative analysis in ethnography / Martin Cortazzi -- The call of life stories in ethnographic research / Ken Plummer -- Autobiography, intimacy and ethnography / Deborah Reed-Danahay -- Feminist ethnography / Beverley Skeggs -- Ethnography after post-modernism / Jonathan Spencer -- Computer applications in qualitative research / Nigel Fielding -- Ethnodrama : performed research, limitations and potential / Jim Mienczakowski -- Postmodernism, post-structuralism and post(critical) ethnography : of ruins, aporias and angels / Patti Lather.
Responsibility: edited by Paul Atkinson ... [et al.].
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"How do you collect and analyze social data in the form of texts (interviews and documents), images (photographs, film and television footage), and sounds (noise and music)? This text shows students which methods are most suitable for particular research problems and what is good practice for each method." "Focusing on the pursuit of quality in social research, the authors: explore different ways of collecting and analyzing data; introduce the main analytical approaches for text, image and sound; cover computer-based analysis; and address problems in interpretation and quality criteria for qualitative research." "The book has been extensively tested with prostgraduate research methods students at the London School of Economics."--BOOK JACKET.

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