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1 online resource |
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases |
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SAGE Research Methods. Cases
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| Summary |
In the late 1980s, I embarked on a "small" project in India to obtain a "bit" of comparative data on Indian women in science and engineering. At that time, there was little cross-cultural research on the scientific gender gap outside of the United States or Europe. As a cultural anthropologist, I initially envisaged a short-term, small-scale, ethnographic study of college students and science-related academic decision-making on one Indian college campus. Yet as I got farther into the project, I realized I would have to drastically revise my original research plan. The result was a multi-phase, multi-method, long-term, and large-scale project involving two trips to India and expansion of the study to the pre-college level. This case study explores some problems that arose, the solutions and revised research plan I devised, and suggests some useful strategies for doing productive research in unfamiliar cultures, especially in less wealthier, developing countries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on XML content |
| Subject |
Education -- Research -- India -- Case studies.
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Education -- India -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Case studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1526420791 |
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9781526420794 (ebook) |
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