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Author Whyte, William Foote, 1914-2000.

Title Learning from the field : a guide from experience / William Foote Whyte with the collaboration of Kathleen King Whyte
Published Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, [1984]
©1984

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 MELB  300.723 Why/Lft  AVAILABLE
Description 295 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Purpose and Focus of this Book -- Participant Observation -- Rationale and Roles -- Planning the Project and Entering the Field -- Field Relations -- Observational Methods -- Interviewing Strategy and Tactics -- Recording, Indexing and Evaluating Interview Data -- Integrating Methods in Team Research -- Using History in Social Research -- Types of Applied Social Research -- Ethics in Field Research and Publication -- Focusing the Study and Analyzing the Data -- From Data Analysis to Reshaping Conceptual Schemes -- Scheme and Styles of Social Research
Analysis Sociology Field research Methodology
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 287-294
Subject Interviewing.
Participant observation.
Social sciences -- Fieldwork.
Sociology -- Fieldwork.
Sociology -- Fieldwork.
Author Whyte, Kathleen King.
LC no. 84015942
ISBN 0803921616
0803933185 (paperback)