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Initiating Ethnographic Research - A Mixed Methods Approach (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Initiating Ethnographic Research - A Mixed Methods Approach (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition
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This is Book 2 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.
Initiating Ethnographic Research: A Mixed Methods Approach, is the
first book of its kind. Unlike texts that describe and detail
methods for doing ethnographic and qualitative research once in the
field, Book 2 explores in depth the many critical issues that
ethnographic researchers need to consider before going to the field
and in the earliest stages of the field experience. These include
preparation of self, establishing relationships that ensure access
to the field, and steps in the construction of a formative
theoretical model that will inform the entire research process from
start to finish. Following guidelines established in Book 1, the
first three chapters describe the reasons why ethnography should be
considered a mixed methods approach to social science research.
They discuss why theory is important in guiding a study, and the
important institutional and personal preparations required to enter
a field setting and begin work. Additional chapters debunk the idea
that ethnographers always enter the field with their minds a "clean
slate" in terms of what they will find during their investigation.
They show why and how researchers can develop initial theoretical
models based on local knowledge and literature reviews. Ethnography
uses a holistic approach, so such models take into consideration
both individual/population and systemic or structural
considerations. They lead the way to integrating ecological,
empirical, critical, and interpretivist approaches into a
comprehensive analysis of a dynamic system. Two chapters also
provide detailed examples to illustrate the connection between
steps in the modeling process, creation of observational measures,
and steps in data collection--from most open-ended kinds of
interviewing and observation to the kind of highly structured
ethnographic surveying described in Book 3. Extensive illustrative
case examples are included. The final chapter shows how the
modeling process can be extended to guide the development of
interventions and change strategies at multiple levels-a process
that should be part of any research program. A wide variety of
diagrams, instructions, examples, and illustrations make the topics
and processes covered in Book 2 easy to read and understand, even
by novice researchers. Overall, Book 2 offers a unique mixed
methods lens through which to build theory by engaging in research
modeling, to enter the field, to set up to gather data, and to
anticipate influencing change. Other books in the set: Book 1:
Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research: An Introduction,
Second Edition by Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul
9780759118690 Book 3: Essential Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed
Methods Approach, Second Edition by Jean J. Schensul and Margaret
D. LeCompte 9780759122031 Book 4: Specialized Ethnographic Methods:
A Mixed Methods Approach edited by Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D.
LeCompte 9780759122055 Book 5: Analysis and Interpretation of
Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach, Second Edition by
Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul 9780759122079 Book 6:
Ethics in Ethnography: A Mixed Methods Approach by Margaret D.
LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul 9780759122093 Book 7: Ethnography in
Action: A Mixed Methods Approach by Jean J. Schensul and Margaret
D. LeCompte 9780759122116
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