Overview

Ethnography seeks to understand, describe and explain the symbolic world lying beneath the social action of groups, organizations and communities. This book clearly sets out the coordinates and foundations of this increasingly popular methodology. Giampietro Gobo discusses all the major issues, including the research design, access to the field, data collection, organisation and analysis, and communication of the results.

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9781412919210

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'The book provides a comprehensive overview of the ethnographic methods debate, which always includes a view of future developments. It learns to classify the methods of discourse in a constructivist research perspective' Forum Qualitative Social Research

'The book provides a comprehensive overview of the ethnographic methods debate, which always includes a view of future developments. It learns to classify the methods of discourse in a constructivist research perspective' Forum Qualitative Social Research

'The book provides a comprehensive overview of the ethnographic methods debate, which always includes a view of future developments. It learns to classify the methods of discourse in a constructivist research perspective' Forum Qualitative Social Research

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Giampietro Gobo is Professor of Methodology of Social Research and Sociology of Science at the University of Milan (Italy). He was one of the founders of the ‘Qualitative Methods’ Research Network of the European Sociological Association. His interests concern scientific controversies on health issues and workplace studies. He is currently undertaking projects on immunization and COVID-19 policies, and ethnographic experiments in the area of cooperation in small teamwork. His books include Doing Ethnography (Sage, 2008), Qualitative Research Practice (co-edited with C. Seale, J. F. Gubrium and D. Silverman, Sage, 2004) and Constructing Survey Data: An Interactional Approach (with S. Mauceri, Sage, 2014).

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