Meta-Ethnography Synthesizing Qualitative Studies

Name: Meta-Ethnography Synthesizing Qualitative Studies
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ISBN: 9780803930230

ISBN-10: 0803930232

ISBN-13: 9780803930230

Edition: 1988

Authors: George W. Noblit, R. Dwight Hare

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How can ethnographic studies be generalized, in contrast to concentrating on the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a new method for synthesizing from qualitative studies: meta-ethnography. After citing the criteria to be used in comparing qualitative research projects, the authors define the ways these can then be aggregated to create more cogent syntheses of research. Using examples from numerous studies ranging from ethnographic work in educational settings to the Mead-Freeman controversy over Samoan youth, Meta-Ethnography offers useful procedural advice from both comparative and cumulative analyses of qualitative data. This provocative volume will be read with interest by…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/1/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 88
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English




Introduction


The Idea of a Meta-Ethnography


A Meta-Ethnographic Approach



Constructing Meta-Ethnographies


Reciprocal Translations as Synthesis


Refutational Synthesis


Lines-of-Argument Synthesis


Inscribing Meta-Ethnographies