Counting as a Qualitative Method: Grappling with the Reliability Issue in Ethnographic Research

by Wayne Fife

This book aims to explore counting as an often-overlooked research tool for qualitative projects. Building off of a research method invented by the author in 1986 called counting schedules, this volume provides instruction on how to use counting not only to enhance fieldwork results, but also as a form of analysis for extant field notes, interview results, self-reporting diaries or essays, primary archival material, secondary historical texts, government...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030348059
• ISBN13: 9783030348052
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"