Analyzing Documentary Accounts

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-7619-1743-4
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc.

Buch, Englisch, Band 128, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 138 g

Reihe: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences

Although ethnographic evidence has accumulated in fields ranging from organizational studies to sociology, these studies have not been fully exploited except as sources of descriptive data. Analyzing Documentary Accounts provides researchers with complete guidelines from mining ethnographic data through the use of new analytic techniques. Readers will find Analyzing Documentary Accounts the key to unlocking the rich data sources available in ethnographic material. Using examples from human relations and Hodson's workplace files, author Randy Hodson explains the benefits and limitations of the quantitative analysis of extant bodies of ethnographic evidence, ways to do reliability and validity checks, methods for coding the data, methods for analyzing multiple ethnographic studies, and suggestions for effectively combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hodson, Randy

Hodson, Randy Dale

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Successful Applications and Extensions
Selecting and Coding Documents
Analyzing Documentary Accounts
Reliability and Validity
Summary

Über Autor(innen)

Hodson, Randy Dale
Research Interests:

comparative social change; gender; race; work and inequality