Ethnographic Imagination (Routledge Revivals) Textual constructions of reality
Innbundet /
2010
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9780415615570
Published
2010-12-31
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd; Routledge
Weight
540 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
208
Author
First published in 1990, The Ethnographic Imagination explores how sociologists use literary and rhetorical conventions to convey their findings and arguments, and to 'persuade' their colleagues and students of the authenticity of their accounts. Looking at selected sociological texts in the light of contemporary social theory, the author analyses how their arguments are constructed and illustrated, and gives many new insights into the literary convention of realism and factual accounts.
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1. Introduction: ethnography as method and as genre2.Ethnography and the poetics of sociology3. Ethnography and the poetics of authoritative accounts4. Ethnography and the representation of reality5. Voices in the text: exemplars and the poetics of ethnography6. Narrative and the represnetation of social action7. Character and type: the textual construction of actors8. Difference, distance, and irony9. Conclusion: textual possibilities
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Product details
ISBN
9780415615570
Published
2010-12-31
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd; Routledge
Weight
540 gr
Height
234 mm
Width
156 mm
Age
U, G, 05, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
208
Author