1st Edition

The Compleat Observer? A Field Research Guide to Observation

Edited By Dr Jack Sanger, Jack Sanger Copyright 1996
    150 Pages
    by Routledge

    150 Pages
    by Routledge

    Combining anecdotal accounts, inter-professional experiences, critical debate and practical pointers to being a good observer, this book explores issues surrounding observation in social science-orientated research.

    Problems and pitfalls; you are here; inside out or outside in?' the ethics of entry; validity and invalidity benefits; checking it out; seeing through the interview; research in the technological sense; seven types of creativity - observation and data analysis; closely observed training; administering poison - reporting observations; tales of future past; test.

    Biography

    Dr Jack Sanger, Jack Sanger