An ethnography of academic writing : on the very idea of an ethnography /
Ethnography has been increasingly adopted by social researchers from many backgrounds in recent years. However, many studies that claim to be ethnographic do not carry out long-duration or extensive fieldwork as in classic anthropological studies. Rather, research in education and linguistic studies...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Los Angeles, California] :
SAGE,
2014.
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| Series: | SAGE research methods. Cases.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Ethnography has been increasingly adopted by social researchers from many backgrounds in recent years. However, many studies that claim to be ethnographic do not carry out long-duration or extensive fieldwork as in classic anthropological studies. Rather, research in education and linguistic studies has started to claim a broadening of ethnography based on various epistemic arguments. These arguments can be seen to cohere with the original analytical aims of ethnography, but have contributed to a situation whereby ethnography has become almost synonymous with qualitative research. This article takes up a discussion that needs resolving, namely, how should it be named and described? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781473946323 1473946328 |