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What's Wrong with Ethnography? Methodological Explorations
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Part One: Ethnography, Theory and Reality 1. What's wrong with ethnography? The myth of theoretical description 2. Some questions about theory in ethnography and history 3. Ethnoraphy and realism 4. By what criteria should ethnographic research be judged? Part Two: Ethnography, Relevance and Practice 5. The relevance of ethnography 6. Critical theory as a model for ethnography 7. Parts that even ethnography cannot reach: Some reflections on the relationship between research and policy 8. On practitioner ethnography Part Three: Qualitative versus Quantitative Method 9. Deconstructing the quantitative-qualitative divide 10. Keeping the converstion open: the relationship between quantitative and qualitative 11. The logic of theory-testing in case study research 12. So, what are case studies?
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- Authors
- Marks, J. T. W., & Hammersley, M.
- Venue
- Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1994
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 556
- ISSN
- 0318-6431 (ISSN-L)
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- W4299496686
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- 212
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- 19.82
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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