Two cases of ethnography: Grounded theory and the extended case method

Ethnography

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 243-263

  Tavory, Iddo ^a   Timmermans, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistemology; Ethnography; Extended case method; Grounded theory; Methodology; Narrative; Theory construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349423767     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138109339042     Document Type: Article

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