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Ethnography : principles in practice / Martyn Hammersley and Paul Atkinson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2007.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xi, 275 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780415396059 (pbk.) :
  • 9780415396042 (hbk.) :
  • 0203944763 (ebk.) :
  • 0415396050 (pbk.) :
  • 9780415396042 (hbk.) :
  • 0415396042 (hbk.) :
  • 9780415396059 (pbk.) :
  • 9780203944769 (ebk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8001 HAM
LOC classification:
  • GN345 .H35 2007
Contents:
Prologue 1. What is ethnography? 2. Research design: problems, cases, and samples 3. Access 4. Field relations 5. Oral accounts and the role of interviewing 6. Documents and other artefacts, real and virtual 7. Recording and organizing data 8. The process of analysis 9. Writing ethnography 10. Ethics Epilogue
Summary: 'Ethnography' provides a systematic and coherent account of ethnographic principles and practice. Rejecting the over-simplified contrast between 'positivism' and 'naturalism', but also questioning more recent critiques of these positions, the authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 305.8001 HAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 205697
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 305.8001 HAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 205698

Previous ed.: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-266) and index.

Prologue 1. What is ethnography? 2. Research design: problems, cases, and samples 3. Access 4. Field relations 5. Oral accounts and the role of interviewing 6. Documents and other artefacts, real and virtual 7. Recording and organizing data 8. The process of analysis 9. Writing ethnography 10. Ethics Epilogue

'Ethnography' provides a systematic and coherent account of ethnographic principles and practice. Rejecting the over-simplified contrast between 'positivism' and 'naturalism', but also questioning more recent critiques of these positions, the authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process.

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