This text is a follow up to Spradley's earlier ethographic research handbook, The Ethnographic Interview, and guides students through the technique of participant observation to research ethnography and culture. Spradley also teaches students how to analyze the data they collect, and write an ethnography. The appendices include research questions and writing tasks.

While providing an introduction to basic principles and strategies, this volume also explores the philosophy and methodology underlying the actual practice of participant observation. Taking a thoroughly practical approach to the methods of participant observation, Jorgensen illustrates these methods with both classic and current research studies. By using the materials in this...(展开全部)

A down-to-earth, practical guide for interview and participant observation and analysis. In-depth interviews and close observation are essential to the work of social scientists, but inserting one’s researcher-self into the lives of others can be daunting, especially early on. Esteemed sociologist Annette Lareau is here to help. Lareau’s clear, insightful, and personal guide i...(展开全部)

A down-to-earth, practical guide for interview and participant observation and analysis. In-depth interviews and close observation are essential to the work of social scientists, but inserting one’s researcher-self into the lives of others can be daunting, especially early on. Esteemed sociologist Annette Lareau is here to help. Lareau’s clear, insightful, and personal guide i...(展开全部)

Depuis le début du XXIe siècle, l'observation astronomique a nettement progressé rendant nécessaire la mise à jour du précedent best-seller de Pierre Lena Méthodes physiques de l'observation, éditée en 1996 et épuisée à ce jour. Cet ouvrage présente une vue synthétique des outils et des méthodes de l'observation astronomique en ce début de millénaire. Bâtie sur une série de cou...(展开全部)

Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic plate, the notebook, the glassed-in beehive, and myriad other ingenious inventions designed to make the invisible visible, the eva...(展开全部)

Depuis le début du XXIe siècle, l'observation astronomique a nettement progressé rendant nécessaire la mise à jour du précedent best-seller de Pierre Lena Méthodes physiques de l'observation, éditée en 1996 et épuisée à ce jour. Cet ouvrage présente une vue synthétique des outils et des méthodes de l'observation astronomique en ce début de millénaire. Bâtie sur une série de cou...(展开全部)

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Participant Workbook is part of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Workshop collection. It is the companion piece to The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Facilitator's Guide. The workbook gives the workshop participant a structure to engage in exercises and review presented material. 点击链接进入中文版： 克服团队协作的五种障碍：参与者手册

Ethnographers rely on three related activities to conduct research in the field: observation, conversation, and participation. Observing others in their environments and using this data to inform and share conclusions is an essential part of any fieldworker's toolkit. However, many ethnographers' observational muscles tend to be their weakest. Fortunately, Christena Nippert-Eng...(展开全部)

A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant. When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn’t seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal birds that find their way into view in city parks and harbors, along eaves and on wires. In ...(展开全部)