LeCompte, Margaret Diane.

Designing & conducting ethnographic research : an introduction / Designing and conducting ethnographic research Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul. - 2nd ed. - Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2010. - xx, 356 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - The ethnographer's toolkit ; 1 . - Ethnographer's toolkit ; 1. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is ethnography? -- When, where, and by whom should ethnography be used? -- Paradigms for framing the conduct of ethnographic research -- An overview of research design -- Choosing and designing an ethnographic research question -- Collecting ethnographic data -- Data analysis : how ethnographers make sense of their data -- Identifying and building research teams and research partnerships -- Applying ethnography -- Protection of risk to human subjects and the ethics of ethnographic fieldwork.

9780759118690 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0759118698 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780759118706 (electronic) 0759118701 (electronic)

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Ethnology--Research.
Ethnology--Methodology.
Research--Evaluation.

GN345 / .S35 2010

305.80014 LEC