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    Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach
    Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach
    Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach
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    Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach

    By Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul

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    This is Book 5 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

    Treating analysis as both a mechanical and a cognitive process, Book 5 begins by describing why analysis and interpretation of data are necessary. In the first two chapters the book points out the importance of beginning ethnographic analysis in the field, during the earliest stages of data collection, and how to move between induction and deduction, the concrete and the abstract, in a process informed by an emerging and increasingly refined conceptual model. The middle section tackles the challenge of transforming huge piles of text, audio, and visual information into
    an ethnographic whole through generic and specific coding and quantification of qualitative data, using multiple extended examples. Chapters show how to use computers in analysis of qualitative data and ways to integrate the results of quantitative and qualitative data into a comprehensive picture of a complex whole. Chapter 9 presents a rare and comprehensive description of the statistics
    regularly used by ethnographers to analyze ethnographic surveys. Chapters 10 and 11 show how researchers create and then fine-tune preliminary results into an integrated whole, display them for multiple audiences, and write them up. The final chapter illustrates how ethnographers can share the meaning of results with local communities and constituents and with other professional researchers.

    Other books in the set:

    Book 1:
    Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research: An Introduction, Second Edition
    by Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul
    9780759118690

    Book 2:
    Initiating Ethnographic Research: A Mixed Methods Approach
    by Stephen L. Schensul, Jean J. Schensul, and Margaret D. LeCompte
    9780759122017

    Book 3:
    Essential Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed Methods Approach, Second Edition
    by Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte
    9780759122031

    Book 4:
    Specialized Ethnographic Methods: A Mixed Methods Approach
    edited by Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte
    9780759122055

    Book 6:
    Ethics in Ethnography: A Mixed Methods Approach
    by Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul
    9780759122093

    Book 7:
    Ethnography in Action: A Mixed Methods Approach
    by Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte
    9780759
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateSep 5, 2012
    ISBN9780759122086
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