Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies
George W. Noblit, R. Dwight Hare
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 that by translating metaphors and key concepts between ethnographic studies, it is possible to develop a broader interpretive synthesis. Using examples from numerous studies, the authors illuminate how meta-ethnography works, isolate several types of meta-ethnographic study and provide a theoretica.
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Année:
1988
Edition:
1
Editeur::
SAGE Publications Incorporated
Langue:
english
Pages:
88
ISBN 10:
0803930232
ISBN 13:
9780803930230
Collection:
Qualitative Research Methods
Fichier:
PDF, 2.67 MB
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english, 1988