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The Ethnographic Interview

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Author: James P. Spradley
Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 247
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.4

ISBN: 0030444969
Dewey Decimal Number: 301.2072
EAN: 9780030444968
ASIN: 0030444969

Publication Date: April 3, 1979
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Product Description
The Ethnographic Interview is a practical, self-teaching handbook which guides students step by step through interview techniques commonly used to research ethnography and culture. The text also teaches students how to analyze the data they collect, and how to write an ethnography. The appendices include research questions and writing tasks.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

he Ethnographic Interview (Paperback), by Spradely February 9, 2008
A seminal reference for all those qualitative researchers--graudate students and tenure track--who use the interview as a data gathering tool. I have referenced this book several times throughout my journey of obtaining my PhD. A must-have reference!br /br /Diane Billay RN BN MN PhD(c)

5 out of 5 stars

Sound advice even if you don't accept all of his method January 23, 2004
6 out of 8 found this review helpful

Spradley was an advocate and artful practitioner of a particular type of ethnography, informed by symbolic interactionism, that does not necessarily have the spatial contextual character of most ethnography. For example, he studied tramp culture, which is a context of a sort, but not like, say the KU med school in Boys in White. Much of this book explains how to conduct his sort of research. Because I generally favor the more traditional contextual approach, I neglected this book in my own book The Ethnographer's Method (Sage). Now I wish I hadn't; the advice on ethnographic interviewing is still very worthwhile for anyone heading off into field research, regardless of their style of qualitative study. In fact, I'm using it myself in the project I'm currently launching.

5 out of 5 stars

I owe my PhD to Spradley February 6, 2003
12 out of 12 found this review helpful

While reviewing tons of literature searching for the appropriate research methodology for my doctorate degree in corporate innovation, The Ethnographic Interview came to my attention. The research paradigm described and illustrated in this work provided a blueprint for the collection and analysis of text-based data. So often quantitative measures are applied before the problem or situation has been truly assessed. Spradley's methods are respectful of the population or culture to be studied and provide a vehicle for the researcher to interact without interferring.

5 out of 5 stars

A great step-by-step guide to ethnographic interviews October 18, 1999
51 out of 52 found this review helpful

This is a great step-by-step guide to the theory and practice of ethnography. Provides the theoretical rationale for why ethnography is structured as it is. It is most unique for the well thought out, structured approach to interviewing. Identifies how different types of questions provide different types of data. Gives an elegant taxonomy of questions and shows how each type of question is linked to a different aspect of ethnographic analysis. A must read classic for anyone--academic ethnographics to market researchers--involved with data collection from individual human beings.

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