Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research

by Robert A. Stebbins and Allan Turowetz

Book Overview

How do you gain entry into a research setting? What tricks are there to learning the rules of the community without alienating the people you came to study? How are good relations maintained with informants? What happens after you leave the field? In Experiencing Fieldwork top ethnographers address these and other questions, bring fieldwork alive for the reader and provide invaluable advice for those entering the field.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803936451
• ISBN13: 9780803936454
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 9.0"