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Analyzing field reality / Jaber Gubrium.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gubrium, Jaber F.
- Series:
- Qualitative research methods ; v. 8.
- Qualitative research methods ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social structure.
- Hermeneutics.
- Ethnomethodology.
- Sociology--Fieldwork.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 79 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1988]
- Summary:
- Analyzing Field Reality provides a new way of thinking about the analysis of fieldwork that will aid researchers in many disciplines. It provides the researcher with a methodology for understanding meaning in the field. The author presents a typology of realities -- articulated and structural -- which shape not only the folk' understanding of interaction in a given setting but that of the ethnographer as well. Gubrium discusses structural, organisationally-embedded factors which shape social forms such as the family, role or personality. Examples from a variety of settings, including nursing homes, hospitals, support groups and residential treatment centres make this method of analysis applicable to qualitative researchers in applie
- Notes:
- "A Sage university paper"--Cover.
- Bibliography: pages 75-78.
- ISBN:
- 080393095X :
- 0803930968
- OCLC:
- 16649238
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