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Ethnostatistics : qualitative foundations for quantitative research / Robert P. Gephart, Jr.
LIBRA HA29 .G45 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gephart, Robert P.
- Series:
- Qualitative research methods ; v. 12.
- Qualitative research methods ; v. 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences--Statistical methods.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 72 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Newbury Park : Sage Publications, [1988]
- Summary:
- Averages, ratios, means, modes, medians, tests of significance and best fit...these are now part of our everyday discourse. Yet statistics seemingly threaten to bury us under their sheer weight. Indeed, social science contributes a good deal to the proliferation of statistics while contributing relatively little to our understanding of just how such statistics are produced and used by their makers and consumers. Ethnostatistics, a term coined by Gephart, refers to the study of the social production and use of statistics. He suggests statistics can be used to produce more effective, reflexive social research. After examining the domain, examples, and levels of ethnostatistics, the author outlines a 3-level approach for producing, testing, and examining statistics. "Gephart presents his concept and examples more crisply and systematically than is usual in qualitative sociological writing. This is an implicit and welcome merging of the 'two sociologies.'" --Contemporary Sociology
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 67-71.
- ISBN:
- 0803930259 :
- 0803930267
- OCLC:
- 16802816
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