| Description |
viii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Social research and educational studies series |
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Social research and educational studies series.
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| Contents |
1. Words as the commodity of discourse: influencing power / David M. Fetterman -- 2. On keeping an edge: translating ethnographic findings and putting them to use - NYC's homeless policy / Kim Hopper -- 3. Testifying on the Hill: using ethnographic data to share public policy / G. Alfred Hess Jr. -- 4. Ethnographic research on AIDS risk behavior and the making of policy / Margaret R. Weeks and Jean J. Schensul -- 5. Protocol and policy-making systems in American Indian tribes / Linda Parker and Bertney Langley -- 6. Communicating evaluation findings as a process: the case for delayed gratification / Jolley Christman and Elaine Simon |
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7. Massaging soft data, or making the skeptical more supple / Mary Jo McGee Brown -- 8. Gaining acceptance from participants, clients, and policy-makers for qualitative research / Joseph A. Maxwell -- 9. An evaluation fable: the animals of united farms / Ronald E. Mertz -- 10. A school board's response to an ethnographic evaluation: or, Whose evaluation is this anyway? / Mary Lopez de Abascal-Hildebrand -- 11. A framework for conducting utilization-focused policy research in anthropology / Barbara Rylko-Bauer and John van Willigen -- 12. Ethnography and policy: translating knowledge into action / David M. Fetterman |
| Analysis |
Ethnography |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Applied anthropology.
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Ethnology -- Research.
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| Author |
Fetterman, David M.
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| LC no. |
93000729 |
| ISBN |
0750702028 |
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0750702036 |
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