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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 301.2072 EAN: 9780030444968 ISBN: 0030444969 Label: Holt Rinehart and Winston Manufacturer: Holt Rinehart and Winston Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 247 Publication Date: April 03, 1979 Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston Studio: Holt Rinehart and Winston Sales Rank: 51879 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Ethnographic Interview is a practical, self-teaching handbook which guides students step by step through interview techniques commonly used to research ethnography and culture. The text also teaches students how to analyze the data they collect, and how to write an ethnography. The appendices include research questions and writing tasks. Average Rating:
 Rating: - he Ethnographic Interview (Paperback), by SpradelyA seminal reference for all those qualitative researchers--graudate students and tenure track--who use the interview as a data gathering tool. I have referenced this book several times throughout my journey of obtaining my PhD. A must-have reference! Diane Billay RN BN MN PhD(c) Rating: - Sound advice even if you don't accept all of his methodSpradley was an advocate and artful practitioner of a particular type of ethnography, informed by symbolic interactionism, that does not necessarily have the spatial contextual character of most ethnography. For example, he studied "tramp" culture, which is a context of a sort, but not like, say the KU med school in Boys in White. Much of this book explains how to conduct his sort of research. Because I generally favor the more traditional contextual approach, I neglected this book in my own book ... Read More Rating: - I owe my PhD to SpradleyWhile reviewing tons of literature searching for the appropriate research methodology for my doctorate degree in corporate innovation, "The Ethnographic Interview" came to my attention. The research paradigm described and illustrated in this work provided a blueprint for the collection and analysis of text-based data. So often quantitative measures are applied before the problem or situation has been truly assessed. Spradley's methods are respectful of the population or culture to be studied and ... Read More Rating: - A great step-by-step guide to ethnographic interviewsThis is a great step-by-step guide to the theory and practice of ethnography. Provides the theoretical rationale for why ethnography is structured as it is. It is most unique for the well thought out, structured approach to interviewing. Identifies how different types of questions provide different types of data. Gives an elegant taxonomy of questions and shows how each type of question is linked to a different aspect of ethnographic analysis. A must read classic for anyone--academic ethnographics ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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