Meta-Ethnography : Synthesizing Qualitative Studies,9780803930230

Meta-Ethnography : Synthesizing Qualitative Studies

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ISBN13: 9780803930230
ISBN10: 0803930232
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1988-02-01
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications, Inc
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Summary

This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context -- the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method -- meta-ethnography -- for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies themselves are interpretive acts, and demonstrate that by translating metaphors and key concepts between ethnographic studies, it is possible to develop a broader interpretive synthesis. Using examples from numerous studies, the authors illuminate how meta-ethnography works, isolate several types of meta-ethnographic study and provide a theoretical justification for the method's use.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
The Idea of a Meta-Ethnography
A Meta-Ethnographic Approach
PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING META-ETHNOGRAPHIES
Reciprocal Translations as Synthesis
Refutational Synthesis
Lines-of-Argument Synthesis
Inscribing Meta-Ethnographies

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