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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... formal , these and other examples suggest that there is no hard - and - fast rule on the gram- mar of formal and informal . Nor is there any limit , in principle , on the length of the string . A particular research project might ...
... formal , these and other examples suggest that there is no hard - and - fast rule on the gram- mar of formal and informal . Nor is there any limit , in principle , on the length of the string . A particular research project might ...
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... formal methods . There are hundreds that are scattered through- out the social science literature . What I would like to do is illustrate the development of formal methods by using three examples from my own work . The first example is ...
... formal methods . There are hundreds that are scattered through- out the social science literature . What I would like to do is illustrate the development of formal methods by using three examples from my own work . The first example is ...
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... formal - informal continuum - it tested my conclusions from the informal data , but also allowed new information to appear . The hypothetical situation method was the most formal . It was a restricted framework into which junkie ...
... formal - informal continuum - it tested my conclusions from the informal data , but also allowed new information to appear . The hypothetical situation method was the most formal . It was a restricted framework into which junkie ...
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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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