Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis

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Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1984 - Social Science - 186 pages
The second edition of this comprehensive guide to qualitative data collection and analysis has been substantially updated and expanded, and the sequence rearranged to follow the progress of the typical research project: gathering, focusing and analysing data.

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GATHERING DATA
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Getting In
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Lyn Loffland is an American sociologist who received her Ph.D. from the University of California at San Francisco. She worked as a social worker early in her professional career and later taught sociology at the University of California at Davis. She is best known for her work on the study of human relations in urban society. Her now classic study, "A World of Strangers" (1973), stressed the importance of spatial arrangements for human communication and interaction in cities.

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