Ethnography and Human Development
Subtitle: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De)
Contributors: Richard Jessor (Editor); Anne Colby (Editor); Richard A. Shweder (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: August 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9780226399027
Subjects: Adolescents; Anthropology; Child & developmental psychology; Children; Social, group or collective psychology; Developmental Psychology; Ethnology And Ethnography; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Congresses; Ethnology; Human behavior; Methodology; Philosophy
First sentence: Although still emerging from the thrall of positivism, social inquiry has for some time been undergoing a profound and searching reexamination of its purpose and its methods.