Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780803930223)

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

Author: George W. Noblit
ISBN-10: 0803930224
ISBN-13: 9780803930223
Publisher: Sage Publications
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1988
Pages: 88
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.88h x 6.64w x 0.53d