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A Handbook for Social Science Field Research provides both novice and experienced researcher with valuable insights into a key list of critical texts pertaining to a wide array of social science methods useful when doing fieldwork. Through essays on everything from ethnography to case study, archival research, oral history, surveys, secondary data analysis and ethics, this refreshing new collection offers `tales from the field' by renowned scholars across various disciplines.
Ethnographic Methods: Ethnography: Theory and Methods
Ethnographic Methods: Ethnography: Theory and Methods
What Is Ethnography?
Interviewing the minister of finance about current trends in the local economy. Riding in a taxi all day with an immigrant cab driver as he picks up and drops off his fares. Helping young mothers as they pound corn in adjoining courtyards and gossip about recent village events. Joining in a lesbian and gay rights march and observing relations between marchers and bystanders.
What do these disparate activities have in common? They are all examples of ethnographya powerful, multistranded method first developed by cultural anthropologists and now adopted by researchers in many disciplines, from political scientists and economists to scholars of education and media studies. Why is ethnography so widely used? Put simply, ethnography offers an unparalleled ...
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