Using computers to analyze ethnographic field data: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 24, Issue , 1998, Pages 477-498

  Dohan, Daniel ^a   Sánchez Jankowski, Martín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer software; Data analysis; Ethnography; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542395810     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.477     Document Type: Article

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