Before, during and after: Realism, reflexivity and ethnography

Sociological Review

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 294-313

  Roberts, John Michael ^a   Sanders, Teela ^a  

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EID: 20444432412     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00515.x     Document Type: Review

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