Qualitative Literacy : A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research
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| Title: | Qualitative Literacy : A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research |
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| Description: | Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell the difference? Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviewing and participant observation. Qualitative research is indispensable to the study of inequality, poverty, education, public health, immigration, the family, and criminal justice. Each of the hundreds of ethnographic and interview studies published yearly on these issues is scientifically either sound or unsound. This guide provides social scientists, researchers, students, evaluators, policy makers, and journalists with the tools needed to identify and evaluate quality in field research. |
| Authors: | Mario Luis Small, Jessica McCrory Calarco |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Ethnology--Qualitative research--Methodology, Interviewing--Methodology |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell the difference? Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviewing and participant observation. Qualitative research is indispensable to the study of inequality, poverty, education, public health, immigration, the family, and criminal justice. Each of the hundreds of ethnographic and interview studies published yearly on these issues is scientifically either sound or unsound. This guide provides social scientists, researchers, students, evaluators, policy makers, and journalists with the tools needed to identify and evaluate quality in field research. |
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| ISBN: | 9780520390652 9780520390669 9780520390676 |
