Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research

by Robert A. Stebbins and Allan Turowetz

Book Overview

Fieldwork has often been viewed as a great black hole, untaught and unteachable. While recent years have seen an increase in the number of how-to manuals for doing fieldwork, they never fully convey the complexity of the experience--the loneliness, the uncertainty, the moral dilemmas, the ambiguities. In Experiencing Fieldwork, a group of top ethnographers addresses various issues and challenges of the fieldwork experience. How do you gain entree...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803936451
• ISBN13: 9780803936454
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 9.0"