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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... proposal reviews are conducted imper- sonally using a single set of agreed upon standards of scientific research design , you are only partly right . Let me give you a hypothetical example of review politics . This case never actually ...
... proposal reviews are conducted imper- sonally using a single set of agreed upon standards of scientific research design , you are only partly right . Let me give you a hypothetical example of review politics . This case never actually ...
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... proposal , I know that several of the committee will be critical . In my view , they will be justified in the case of the methodology , but unjustified in the case of the politics . Many of them , my reasoning goes , would gladly ...
... proposal , I know that several of the committee will be critical . In my view , they will be justified in the case of the methodology , but unjustified in the case of the politics . Many of them , my reasoning goes , would gladly ...
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... proposal first - the research design . As a former Jesuit student of mine put it , the trick in designing a research proposal for a review panel of hypothesis - testers is " to render the audience benevolent . " They will have questions ...
... proposal first - the research design . As a former Jesuit student of mine put it , the trick in designing a research proposal for a review panel of hypothesis - testers is " to render the audience benevolent . " They will have questions ...
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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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