Speaking of Ethnography

by Michael H. Agar

Book Overview

Challenging the assumed usefulness of conventional scientific procedures as the most appropriate models for the study of human affairs, author Michael Agar continues the premise set forth in his popular work, The Professional Stranger. Informed by a hermeneutic and phenomenological tradition, Agar′s fundamental thrust is that the social investigator′s practices and procedures are open to inspection and therefore subject to critical assessment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803924925
• ISBN13: 9780803924925
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.4" x 8.8"