Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies

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, R. Dwight Hare
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 02/01/1988
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.76h x 4.80w x 0.32d
ISBN13: 9780803930230
ISBN10: 0803930232
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Research
- Social Science | Methodology
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social

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