Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies

by George W. Noblit and R . Dwight Hare

Book Overview

This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context -- the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method -- meta-ethnography -- for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies themselves are interpretive acts, and demonstrate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803930232
• ISBN13: 9780803930230
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.8" x 8.8"