Leaving the field /
Despite the growing popularity of ethnography in the 20th and 21st centuries, recent qualitative research texts (e.g., Denzin & Lincoln, 2005, and subsequent editions; Hammersley & Atkinson, 2007; Marcus, 2008) and articles about ethnography (Gobo, 2008; Lewis & Russell, 2011; Wacquant,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Ethnography.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Despite the growing popularity of ethnography in the 20th and 21st centuries, recent qualitative research texts (e.g., Denzin & Lincoln, 2005, and subsequent editions; Hammersley & Atkinson, 2007; Marcus, 2008) and articles about ethnography (Gobo, 2008; Lewis & Russell, 2011; Wacquant, 2003) include relatively little about leaving the field. Even earlier, David Maines, William Shaffir, and Alan Turowetz (1980) related having examined "dozens of methodological accounts of ethnographic research ... but not one research description has recounted the elements involved in exiting from the field" (p. 262). This entry aims to compensate for the paucity of attention to "leaving the field" in ethnographic field research. In the self-reflective/reflexive fashion characteristic of today's ethnographic writing, it is conceptualized as a three-part story. Part 1 of the story ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529746037 1529746035 9781526421036 1526421038 |