Systematic Data Collection

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Author: Susan C Weller
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
ISBN-13: 9780803930742
Publishing year: March 1988
No of pages: 96
Weight: 60 grm
Language: English
Book binding: Paperback

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The message of this concise volume is that data collection in the field can be carried out in a structured, systematic and scientific way. This volume compels field researchers to take very seriously not only what they hear, but what they ask. Ethnographers have often discovered too late that the value of their interview information is discounted as a consequence of poor sampling (of both questions and informants) and poor elicitation techniques. Firstly the authors focus on the importance of establishing the right questions to ask through the use of free listing techniques, then they describe in practical terms the administration of an impressive array of alternative kinds of informant task. They conclude with a discussion of reliability and validity of various methods which can be used to generate more systematic, culturally meaningful data.