| The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality Contributor(s): Atkinson, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415615585 ISBN-13: 9780415615587 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.8 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.66 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 1990, The Ethnographic Imagination explores how sociologists use literary and rhetorical conventions to convey their findings and arguments, and to 'persuade' their colleagues and students of the authenticity of their accounts. Looking at selected sociological texts in the light of contemporary social theory, the author analyses how their arguments are constructed and illustrated, and gives many new insights into the literary convention of realism and factual accounts. |