The professional stranger: an informal introduction to ethnography
Material type:
- 9780120444700
- 305.8001 A4P7
Item type | Current library | Item location | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Vikram Sarabhai Library | Rack 11-B / Slot 420 (0 Floor, West Wing) | Non-fiction | General Stacks | 305.8001 A4P7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 192922 |
Table of Content:
1.Ethnography reconstructed : the stranger at fifteen
2.The concept of fieldwork
3.Getting started
4.Who are you to do this?
5.Ethnography
6.Beginning fieldwork
7.Narrowing the focus
8.Informal to formal : some examples
9.The ethnographic research proposal
10.Ethnography in context.
This new edition of a classic introductory text opens with an extensive 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 even as they adapt to a world unimagined when the research perspective developed more than 100 years ago. Contemporary discussions of ethnography are loaded with choices, primarily "either-or" option. Just as the first edition crossed the qualitative-quantitative divide, the new edition integrates classical scientific notions with new concepts such as narrative and interpretation. Agar updates the contrast between the researcher's apprenticeship to knowledgeable informants and the hypothesis-testing mode that still dominates social science, while demonstrating the complementarity of the two. Drawing extensively from his own research experience, he illustrates the stages of the ethnographic process from inception through the emergence of a focus, and toward a subsequent formalization of methods and analysis. In the process, he illustrates several approaches designed to reconcile the contradictory demands of the scientific process and human behavior.
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