Objectivity and subjectivity in the ethnographic method

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 647-668

  Hegelund, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bias; Ethnography; Grounded theory; Philosophy of science; Postmodernism; Truth

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONSENSUS; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; PERSONNEL; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCIENCE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; OBSERVATION; PHILOSOPHY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; SCIENCE; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 21744459909     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732304273933     Document Type: Article

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