Ethical escape routes for underground ethnographers

American Ethnologist

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 499-506

  Katz, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic freedom; Administrative discretion; Ethnographic methodology; Institutional review board; Participant observation; Research ethics; Sociology of higher education; Sociology of law

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750101552     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.4.499     Document Type: Article

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