Ethnography and Human Development - Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry (Hardcover, New edition)

Studies of human development have taken an ethnographic turn in the 1990s. In this volume, leading anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists discuss how qualitative methodologies have strengthened our understanding of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development, and of the difficulties of growing up in contemporary society.
Part 1, informed by a post-positivist philosophy of science, argues for the validity of ethnographic knowledge. Part 2 examines a range of qualitative methods, from participant observation to the hermeneutic elaboration of texts. In Part 3, ethnographic methods are applied to issues of human development across the life span and to social problems including poverty, racial and ethnic marginality, and crime.
Restoring ethnographic methods to a central place in social inquiry, these twenty-two lively essays will interest everyone concerned with the epistemological problems of context, meaning, and subjectivity in the behavioral sciences.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	John D & C T Macarthur FNDTN Ser Mental Health/DEV MF
Release date:	August 1996
First published:	August 1996
Editors:	Anne Colby • Richard A. Shweder • Richard Jessor
Dimensions:	233 x 162 x 3mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	530
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-39902-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adolescents Promotions
LSN:	0-226-39902-8
Barcode:	9780226399027

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