Analyzing documentary accounts

Author(s)

• Hodson, Randy

Bibliographic Information

Analyzing documentary accounts

Randy Hodson

（Sage university papers series, . Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-128）

Sage Publications, c1999

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-87)

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Although ethnographic evidence has accumulated in fields ranging from organizational studies to sociology, these studies have not been fully exploited except as sources of descriptive data. Analyzing Documentary Accounts provides researchers with complete guidelines from mining ethnographic data through the use of new analytic techniques. Readers will find Analyzing Documentary Accounts the key to unlocking the rich data sources available in ethnographic material. Using examples from human relations and Hodson's workplace files, author Randy Hodson explains the benefits and limitations of the quantitative analysis of extant bodies of ethnographic evidence, ways to do reliability and validity checks, methods for coding the data, methods for analyzing multiple ethnographic studies, and suggestions for effectively combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Table of Contents

Introduction Successful Applications and Extensions Selecting and Coding Documents Analyzing Documentary Accounts Reliability and Validity Summary

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA44742590
• ISBN:
  • 0761917438
• LCCN: 99006255
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Thousand Oaks
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 88 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : H61
  • DC21 : 300
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Social sciences -- Methodology
  • LCSH : Content analysis (Communication)
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00656709