num_pages: 230
description: Suppose you were given two qualitative one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other though interesting and beautifully written is not. How would you tell the difference? Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviewing and participant observation. Qualitative research is indispensable to the study of inequality poverty education public health immigration the family and criminal justice. Each of the hundreds of ethnographic and interview studies published yearly on these issues is scientifically either sound or unsound. This guide provides social scientists researchers students evaluators policy makers and journalists with the tools needed to identify and evaluate quality in field research.
language: English
title: Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research
publisher: University of California Press