Principles, Approaches and Issues in Participant Observation - Couverture rigide

L. Jorgensen, Danny

 
9780367415280: Principles, Approaches and Issues in Participant Observation
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0367415283 ISBN 13 : 9780367415280
Editeur : Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book provides a succinct, student-friendly outline of the principles, approaches, and issues in participant observation. An examination of these basic tenets is important for clarifying the philosophical rationale for conducting participant observation, making important research decisions, and appreciating the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches within the method.

Participant observation as a formal means of inquiry is developed in close relation with the competing approaches of reality (ontology), truthfully apprehending reality (epistemology), and formal research (methodology). In this volume Jorgensen discusses the resulting methodologies of positivism, humanism, and most recently postmodernism in relation to principles, approaches, and issues in participant observation. Specific features of participant observation, as exemplified in a wide range of classic and contemporary studies, are examined by way of these methodological approaches along with the troublesome complexities of values, politics, ethics, and contemporary debates over appropriate representations of the resulting findings about human life.

This concise primer is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines such as anthropology, religious studies, sociology and nursing.

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À propos de l?auteur

Danny L. Jorgensen is Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida. Dr. Jorgensen's teaching, research, and writing has focused on the sociological consequences of modernity, especially secularization, using a variety of qualitative methods, chiefly participant observation.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0367415283
ISBN 13 
9780367415280
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
180
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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