The Active Participant-Observer: Applying Social Role Analysis to Participant Observation

Field Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 111-134

  Johnson, Jeffrey C ^a   Avenarius, Christine ^a   Weatherford, Jack ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

active participant observation; data quality; ethnography; social role analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750510480     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X05285928     Document Type: Article

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