What do ethnographers believe? A reply to Jones

Human Relations

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 153-171

  Weeks, John R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ascription belief; Epistemology; Ethnography; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010972527     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726700531007     Document Type: Article

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