Ethical and friendly researchers, but not insiders: A response to Blodgett, Boyer, and Turk

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  McGinn, Michelle K ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Insider outsider roles; Research ethics; Researcher participant relationships; Subject centered perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544501704     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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