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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... specific question about the last statement , inviting elaboration in a specific direction . And so it continues , through probes on earlier material up to an interviewer- requested change in the topic of the interview . Beyond Whyte's ...
... specific question about the last statement , inviting elaboration in a specific direction . And so it continues , through probes on earlier material up to an interviewer- requested change in the topic of the interview . Beyond Whyte's ...
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... specific questions based on what the informant is saying . There is a wealth of additional suggestions in literary criticism , computer science , and linguistics , not to mention the social sciences . You may also come up with some that ...
... specific questions based on what the informant is saying . There is a wealth of additional suggestions in literary criticism , computer science , and linguistics , not to mention the social sciences . You may also come up with some that ...
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... specific life experiences . These are the data used in Table 20. In the second round , he was asked to respond " in general . " Interestingly enough , almost none of the scores changed in going from the specific to the general , varying ...
... specific life experiences . These are the data used in Table 20. In the second round , he was asked to respond " in general . " Interestingly enough , almost none of the scores changed in going from the specific to the general , varying ...
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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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