Ethnography and Human Development Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry

Name: Ethnography and Human Development Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry
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ISBN: 9780226399034

ISBN-10: 0226399036

ISBN-13: 9780226399034

Edition: 1996

Authors: Richard Jessor, Anne Colby, Richard A. Shweder

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Studies of human development have taken an ethnographic turn in the 1990s. In this volume, leading anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists discuss how qualitative methodologies have strengthened our understanding of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development, and of the difficulties of growing up in contemporary society. Part 1, informed by a post-positivist philosophy of science, argues for the validity of ethnographic knowledge. Part 2 examines a range of qualitative methods, from participant observation to the hermeneutic elaboration of texts. In Part 3, ethnographic methods are applied to issues of human development across the life span and to social problems including…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 530
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.90" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Preface


List of Contributors



Ethnographic Methods in Contemporary Perspective




True Ethnography: The Lore, the Law, and the Lure




The Epistemology of Qualitative Research




Missing Persons: Recovering Developmental Stories/Histories




Culture, Development, Disability




The Epistemological Crisis in the Human Disciplines: Letting the Old Do the Work of the New




Can We Overcome Worldview Incommensurability/Relativity in Trying to Understand the Other?




Quanta and Qualia: What Is the "Object" of Ethnographic Method?




Instantiating Culture through Discourse Practices: Some Personal Reflections on Socialization and How to Study It Peggy




Neighborhood Social Organization: A Forgotten Object of Ethnographic Study?




Ruling Places: Adaptation in Development by Inner-City Youth Shirley




Role-Relationship Models: A Person-Schematic Method for Inferring Beliefs about Identity and Social Action




Studying Cognitive Development in Sociocultural Context: The Development of a Practice-Based Approach




Why Ethnography Should Be the Most Important Method in the Study of Human Development




The Multiple Contexts of Human Development Anne Colby



Ideology and Subjectivity: Midlife and Menopause in Japan and North America Margaret Lock



Ethnography, Biography, and Cultural History: Generational Paradigms in Human Development




Ethnographic Insights on Social Context and Adolescent Development among Inner-City African-American Teens




Transitions in Early Childhood: The Promise of Comparative, Longitudinal Ethnography




Nature, Second Nature, and Individual Development: An Ethnographic Opportunity




The Uneasy Engagement of Human Development and Ethnography



Author Index


Subject Index