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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... look a bit startled at such an irrelevant question , and say , " eenilla " ( ' Nothing at all ' ) , and then sometimes resume staring . My rules said such eye contact was rude in the extreme . It was so unsettling in the early days of ...
... look a bit startled at such an irrelevant question , and say , " eenilla " ( ' Nothing at all ' ) , and then sometimes resume staring . My rules said such eye contact was rude in the extreme . It was so unsettling in the early days of ...
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... look at whatever other data you had . First you discuss your sample . You take all 50 from the neighborhood in which you have been working . It is a " casual sample , " which is jargon for grabbing whoever comes along who will talk with ...
... look at whatever other data you had . First you discuss your sample . You take all 50 from the neighborhood in which you have been working . It is a " casual sample , " which is jargon for grabbing whoever comes along who will talk with ...
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... looks like infor- mants cluster at both ends , leaving the middle sparsely populated . One idea you might get here is ... look at different parts of the sample . Let us say you talked with some people who had been junkies since the 1960s ...
... looks like infor- mants cluster at both ends , leaving the middle sparsely populated . One idea you might get here is ... look at different parts of the sample . Let us say you talked with some people who had been junkies since the 1960s ...
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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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