Talk Is Cheap: Ethnography and the Attitudinal Fallacy

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 178-209

  Jerolmack, Colin ^a   Khan, Shamus ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudinal fallacy; culture; ethnography; interaction; methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899743201     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124114523396     Document Type: Article

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