Analyzing Documentary Accounts

Informationen zum Autor Research Interests: comparative social change; gender; race; work and inequality Klappentext Although ethnographic evidence has accumulated in fields ranging from organizational studies to sociology, these studies have not been fully exploited except as sources of descriptive data. Analyzing Documentary Accounts provides researchers with complete guidelines from mining ethnographic data through the use of new analytic techniques. Readers will find Analyzing Documentary Accounts the key to unlocking the rich data sources available in ethnographic material. Using examples from human relations and Hodson¿s workplace files, author Randy Hodson explains the benefits and limitations of the quantitative analysis of extant bodies of ethnographic evidence, ways to do reliability and validity checks, methods for coding the data, methods for analyzing multiple ethnographic studies, and suggestions for effectively combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Zusammenfassung Guides the reader through the use of documentary accounts as data sources. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Successful Applications and Extensions Selecting and Coding Documents Analyzing Documentary Accounts Reliability and Validity Summary

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Randy Hodson, Randy Dale Hodson, Hodson Randy Dale
• Mitarbeit: Randy Dale Hodson (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 09.09.1999
• EAN: 9780761917434
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1743-4
• Seiten: 96
• Serien: Quantitative Applications in t; Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences; Quantitative Applications in t
• Themen: Sachbuch > Lexika, Nachschlagewerke > Lexika, Enzyklopädien; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics