Designing & Conducting Ethnographic Research

Informationen zum Autor Margaret D. LeCompte is professor emerita of education and sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.Jean J. Schensul is founding director and senior scientist at the Institute for Community Research, Hartford, Connecticut. Klappentext This first volume of the Ethnographer's Toolkit provides a practical, straightforward introduction to ethnography and ethnographic practice to the student and novice fieldworker. Zusammenfassung This first volume of the Ethnographer's Toolkit provides a practical! straightforward introduction to ethnography and ethnographic practice to the student and novice fieldworker. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionList of Tables and FiguresList of ExamplesChapter 1. What Is Ethnography?Chapter 2. When, Where, and By Whom Should Ethnography Be Used?Chapter 3. Paradigms for Framing the Research of Ethnographic ResearchChapter 4. An Overview of Research DesignChapter 5. Choosing and Designing an Ethnographic Research ProjectChapter 6. Collecting Ethnographic DataChapter 7. Data Analysis: How Ethnographers Make Sense of their DataChapter 8. Identifying and Building Research Items and Research PartnershipsChapter 9. Applying EthnographyChapter 10. Protection of Risk to Human Subjects and the Ethics of Ethnographic FieldworkReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: LECOMPTE, Margaret D LeCompte, Margaret D. LeCompte, Margaret Diane LeCompte, Jean Schensul, Jean J Schensul, Jean J. Schensul, Jean J./ Lecompte Schensul
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2010
• EAN: 9780759118690
• ISBN: 978-0-7591-1869-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Ethnographer's Toolkit; Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition; Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second; Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)