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Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry

Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry

Jessor, Richard
Colby, Anne
Shweder, Richard a.

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Series: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Mental Health and Development, Studies O

Anthropology

ISBN10: 0226399036
ISBN13: 9780226399034
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Aug 1 1996
Pages: 530
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.07
Language: English
Studies of human development have taken an ethnographic turn in the 1990s. In this volume, leading anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists discuss how qualitative methodologies have strengthened our understanding of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development, and of the difficulties of growing up in contemporary society.

Part 1, informed by a post-positivist philosophy of science, argues for the validity of ethnographic knowledge. Part 2 examines a range of qualitative methods, from participant observation to the hermeneutic elaboration of texts. In Part 3, ethnographic methods are applied to issues of human development across the life span and to social problems including poverty, racial and ethnic marginality, and crime.

Restoring ethnographic methods to a central place in social inquiry, these twenty-two lively essays will interest everyone concerned with the epistemological problems of context, meaning, and subjectivity in the behavioral sciences.

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