The Ethnographically Contextualized Case Study Method: Exploring Ambitious Achievement in an American Indian Community

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-168

  Gone, Joseph P ^a   Alcántara, Carmela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indians; case study; cultural psychology; methodology; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ACHIEVEMENT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77952111597     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013873     Document Type: Article

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