Learning from the Field: A Guide from Experience

by William Foote Whyte and William F. Whyte

Book Overview

Other field researchers, who usually convey their craft only through one-on-one apprenticeships, should follow Whyte′s lead and try to create their own vicarious apprenticeships through candid backstage accounts of their judgment calls in the field. . . . This book gives seasoned investigators an excuse to rethink what they take for granted and to see, step-by-step, how their practice compares with that of another seasoned person. Most people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803921616
• ISBN13: 9780803921610
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.