Key Terms

  • analytic induction, 179
  • constant comparative method, 178
  • cultural interpretation, 165
  • deductive, 177
  • emic, 165
  • ethnographic interviews, 173
  • ethnographic realism, 180
  • ethnographic surveys, 174
  • ethnography, 165
  • etic, 165
  • external reliability, 182
  • fieldwork, 169
  • focus groups, 173
  • full cycle of activities, 170
  • gatekeepers, 168
  • grounded theory, 179
  • heteroglossic, 181
  • in-depth, 173
  • inductive, 177
  • informants, 165
  • informed consent, 169
  • in situ, 170
  • institutional review boards (IRBs), 169
  • internal reliability, 183
  • iterative, 176
  • key informants, 175
  • low-inference descriptors, 183
  • member checks, 183
  • multi-sited ethnographies, 166
  • naturalistic, 166
  • non-participant participant observer, 172
  • open-ended, 173
  • participant observation, 171
  • polyphonic, ...

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