The role of theory in ethnographic research

Ethnography

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 549-564

  Wilson, William Julius ^a   Chaddha, Anmol ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deductive theory; Discovery; Ethnography; Ghetto; Inductive theory; Urban poverty; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449937552     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138109347009     Document Type: Article

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