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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 theoretical justification for the method's use.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Meta-Ethnography
• Subtitle: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies
• Author: George W. Noblit
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88
• EAN: 9780803930230
• ISBN: 0803930232
• ID: 04163841
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• Weight: 156 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 144 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. April 1988

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