Meta-ethnography : synthesizing qualitative studies /

Noblit, George W.,

Meta-ethnography : synthesizing qualitative studies / Meta-ethnography : synthesising qualitative studies George W. Noblit, R. Dwight Hare. - 88 pages ; 22 cm - Qualitative research methods ; v. 11 . - Qualitative research methods ; v. 11. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-86).

The Idea of a Meta-Ethnography -- The Paradigm Problem -- The Meaning of Meta-Ethnography -- Knowledge Synthesis -- Synthesizing Understanding -- Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Failure of Synthesis for the Desegregation Ethnographies -- The Problem of Ethnographic Synthesis -- Success from Failure -- Understanding and Knowledge -- One Basis for a Meta-Ethnography -- A Meta-Ethnographic Approach -- An Alternative Theory of Social Explanation -- Metaphors and Meta-Ethnography -- The Judgment Calls -- Constructing Meta-Ethnographies -- Reciprocal Translations as Syntheses -- School Principal's Synthesis -- "Crisis of Authority" Synthesis -- Refutational Synthesis -- When Ethnographies Don't Add, Analyze Refutations -- The Everhart-Cusick Debate -- Metaphors for Refutational Synthesis -- The Freeman Refutation of Mead -- Lines-of-Argument Synthesis -- Clinical Inference -- Grounded Theorizing -- Lines of Argument and Meta-Ethnography -- The Desegregation Ethnographies Synthesis -- Inscribing Meta-Ethnographies -- Creating Analogies -- Expressing Synthesis -- Claims about the Meaning of a Meta-Ethnography.

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Ethnology--Methodology
Ethnology--Authorship.
Ethnology--Qualitative research.

GN345 / .N63 1988 H62 / .Q34 v.11

305.8001

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