TY  - BOOK
AU  - Noblit,George W.
AU  - Hare,R.Dwight
TI  - Meta-ethnography: synthesizing qualitative studies 
T2  - Qualitative research methods
SN  - 0803930232
AV  - GN345 .N63 1988
U1  - 305.8001 23
PY  - 1988///]
CY  - Newbury Park, Calif.
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Qualitative research
N1  - 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
ER  -