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Title: The Ethnographic Interview by James P. Spradley ISBN: 0-03-044496-9 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company Pub. Date: 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $56.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Sound advice even if you don't accept all of his method
Comment: Spradley 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 The Ethnographer's Method (Sage). Now I wish I hadn't; the advice on ethnographic interviewing is still very worthwhile for anyone heading off into field research, regardless of their style of "qualitative" study. In fact, I'm using it myself in the project I'm currently launching.
Rating: 5
Summary: I owe my PhD to Spradley
Comment: While 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 provide a vehicle for the researcher to interact without interferring.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great step-by-step guide to ethnographic interviews
Comment: This 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 to market researchers--involved with data collection from individual human beings.
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Title: Participant Observation by James P. Spradley ISBN: 0030445019 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1980 List Price(USD): $51.95 |
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Title: Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes by Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw ISBN: 0226206815 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis by John Lofland, Lyn H. Lofland ISBN: 0534247806 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company Pub. Date: 08 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook by Matthew B. Miles, A. Michael Huberman ISBN: 0803955405 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $58.95 |
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Title: Tales of the Field on Writing Ethnography by John Van Maanen ISBN: 0226849627 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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