The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to EthnographyThis edition of an introductory text opens with a chapter that brings ethnography up-to-date and aims it toward the next century. At a time when numerous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography, Agar shows how the fundamentals endure. |
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... addicts and addiction . Most social - science drug research at that time was done by psychologists and sociologists , usually with specific interest in pathology and deviance . Everyone agreed that the heroin addict was a social ...
... addicts and addiction . Most social - science drug research at that time was done by psychologists and sociologists , usually with specific interest in pathology and deviance . Everyone agreed that the heroin addict was a social ...
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... addicts , but reading it at the onset of my ethnographic work introduced a lot of unnecessary noise into my mind as I tried to learn about being a heroin addict from " patients " in the institution . As I listened to patients talk with ...
... addicts , but reading it at the onset of my ethnographic work introduced a lot of unnecessary noise into my mind as I tried to learn about being a heroin addict from " patients " in the institution . As I listened to patients talk with ...
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... addicts arrested , and , of course , those arrested constitute a biased population as well . Second , opinions ... addict respondent might bias his statements toward an overinflation of illicit methadone use , to take one example , to ...
... addicts arrested , and , of course , those arrested constitute a biased population as well . Second , opinions ... addict respondent might bias his statements toward an overinflation of illicit methadone use , to take one example , to ...
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The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography Michael Agar No preview available - 1996 |
The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography Michael Agar No preview available - 1996 |
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