Meta-ethnography : synthesizing qualitative studies

George W. Noblit, R. Dwight Hare.
Author/Creator:
Noblit, George W.
Contributor:
Hare, R. Dwight
Resource Type:
Book
Publication:
Newbury Park : Sage Publications, [1988]
Copyright Notice:
1988
Physical Description:
88 pages ; 23 cm.

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GN345.N63 1988

Details

Series Title:
  • Qualitative research methods ; v. 11
  • Qualitative research methods ; v. 11.
Bibliography:
Bibliography: pages 83-86.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context -- the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method -- meta-ethnography -- for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies themselves are interpretive acts, and demonstrate that by translating metaphors and key concepts between ethnographic studies, it is possible to develop a broader interpretive synthesis. Using examples from numerous studies, the authors illuminate how meta-ethnography works, isolate several types of meta-ethnographic study and provide a theoretica
Subject:
ISBN:
  • 9780803930223
  • 0803930224
  • 9780803930230
  • 0803930232
LC Classification:
GN345.N63 1988
Catalog Record ID:
991025097079703811
Language:
English

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