Knowing Children: Participant Observation with Minors

by Gary Alan Fine and Kent L. Sandstrom

Book Overview

To help the researcher understand why and how children react to adults who are doing ethnographic research, Fine and Sandstrom explore the methodological and ethical problems of qualitative research with minors. They correct numerous fallacies held by researchers that children think like adults and that they cannot hide their thoughts and feelings from adults, especially strangers. Recognizing that age is an important determinant of children′s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803933657
• ISBN13: 9780803933651
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"