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What's Wrong With Ethnography?

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This stimulating and refreshing study, written by one of the leading commentators in the field, provides novel answers to these crucial questions. "What's Wrong With Ethnography provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of ethnographic research in sociology, education and related fields, and succeeds in slaying a number of currently fashionable sacred cows.

Relativism, critical theory, the uniqueness of the case study and the distinction between qualitative and quantitative research are all examined and found wanting as a basis for informed ethnography.

The policy and political implications of ethnography are a particular focus of attention.

The author compels the reader to reexamine some basic methodological assumptions in an exciting way", Martin Bulmer, London School of Economics.

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Product Details
Routledge
1138168084 / 9781138168084
Hardback
305.8
26/11/2015
United Kingdom
English
ix, 230 pages
22 cm
Reprint. Originally published: 1992.