Analyzing & Interpreting Ethnographic Data
- ISBN-10
- 0761989749
- ISBN-13
- 9780761989745
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 243
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman Altamira
- Authors
- Margaret Diane LeCompte, Jean J. Schensul
Description
Describes methods for transforming fieldnotes, observations, audio and video tapes, surveys, and other kinds of data into research results that facilitate problem solving. Addresses both narrative (qualitative) and enumerated (quantitative) data, with discussion of methods for organizing, retrieving, and interpreting materials collected in an ethnographic project. Includes chapter summaries, margin definitions, and cross references to material in other books in the series. LeCompte is a professor of education and sociology in the School of Education at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Schensul is a medical/educational anthropologist, an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut, and a senior fellow in the department of psychology at Yale University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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