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Experiencing fieldwork : an inside view of qualitative research / William B. Shaffir, Robert A. Stebbins, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SAGE Focus Editions
- SAGE focus editions ; v. 124
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
- Social sciences.
- Social sciences--Fieldwork.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 274 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newbury Park : SAGE, 1991.
- Summary:
- How do you gain entry into a research setting? What tricks are there to learning the rules of the community without alienating the people you came to study? How are good relations maintained with informants? What happens after you leave the field? In Experiencing Fieldwork top ethnographers address these and other questions, bring fieldwork alive for the reader and provide invaluable advice for those entering the field.
- Contents:
- part I. Getting in
- part II. Learning the ropes
- part III. Maintaining relations
- part IV. Leaving and keeping in touch.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781483325514
- 1483325512
- 9781452252674
- 145225267X
- OCLC:
- 812185876
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