Whyte, William Foote, 1914-

Learning from the field : a guide from experience / William Foote Whyte with the collaboration of Kathleen King Whyte. - Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, c1984. - 295 p. ; 23 cm.

Bibliography: p. 287-294.

Machine derived contents note: Purpose and Focus of this Book -- Participant Observation -- Rationale and Roles -- Planning the Project and Entering the Field -- Field Relations -- Observational Methods -- Interviewing Strategy and Tactics -- Recording, Indexing and Evaluating Interview Data -- Integrating Methods in Team Research -- Using History in Social Research -- Types of Applied Social Research -- Ethics in Field Research and Publication -- Focusing the Study and Analyzing the Data -- From Data Analysis to Reshaping Conceptual Schemes -- Scheme and Styles of Social Research.

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Social sciences--Field work.
Sociology--Field work.
Participant observation.
Interviewing.

Sociology Field research Methodology

H62 / .W455 1984

300.723 / WHL 1984