What's Wrong with Ethnography?

by Martyn Hammersley

Book Overview

This stimulating and refreshing study, written by one of the leading commentators in the field, provides novel answers to these crucial questions.
"What's Wrong With Ethnography provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of ethnographic research in sociology, education and related fields, and succeeds in slaying a number of currently fashionable sacred cows. Relativism, critical theory, the uniqueness of the case study and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041505477X
• ISBN13: 9780415054775
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary