Selecting Ethnographic Informants (Qualitative Research Methods)

Book Overview

Your study is only as valid as the data you collect, and in ethnography, this means the informants you use. Rather than relying on chance to provide a qualified person to be an informant, Johnson shows you how to systematically select people as informants. Using two frameworks--theory driven and data driven--we learn not only what makes good informants, but how to choose them. Selecting Ethnographic Informants provides a balanced strategy for informant recruitment and will be most useful for anyone in sociology, anthropology, communication research, organization analysis, and education and health research. "Much of the book is devoted to describing the techniques and advantages of network-based informant selection. The procedures discussed are highly systematic and will be particularly useful for researchers studying populations that are divided into discrete subgroups with relatively high degrees of internal routine or organization. . . . Johnson has advanced the discourse on ethnographic sampling." --Contemporary Sociology

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803935870
• ISBN13: 9780803935877
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.3" x 5.5"