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Qualitative Research Methods Ser.: Ethnostatistics : Qualitative Foundations for Quantitative Research by Robert P. Gephart Jr. (1988, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSAGE Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100803930267

ISBN-139780803930261

eBay Product ID (ePID)895582

Product Key Features

Number of Pages72 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameEthnostatistics : Qualitative Foundations for Quantitative Research

Publication Year1988

SubjectAnthropology / General, Statistics

TypeTextbook

AuthorRobert P. Gephart Jr.

Subject AreaSocial Science

SeriesQualitative Research Methods Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN87-026606

Dewey Edition19

Series Volume Number12

Volume NumberVol. 12

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal300/.1/5195

Table Of ContentThe Domain of EthnostaticsProducing a StatisticStatistics at WorkStatistics as RhetoricSummary and Conclusions

SynopsisAverages, ratios, means, modes, medians, tests of significance and best fit...these are now part of our everyday discourse. Yet statistics seemingly threaten to bury us under their sheer weight. Indeed, social science contributes a good deal to the proliferation of statistics while contributing relatively little to our understanding of just how such statistics are produced and used by their makers and consumers. Ethnostatistics, a term coined by Gephart, refers to the study of the social production and use of statistics. He suggests statistics can be used to produce more effective, reflexive social research. After examining the domain, examples, and levels of ethnostatistics, the author outlines a 3-level approach for producing, testing, and examining statistics. "Gephart presents his concept and examples more crisply and systematically than is usual in qualitative sociological writing. This is an implicit and welcome merging of the two sociologies." --Contemporary Sociology, This volume discusses ethnostatistics - the interpretative study of the construction and use of statistics in social research - and will be of equal interest to qualitative and quantitative researchers across the social sciences. On the understanding that the development of a statistic is inherently a qualitative act, the author shows how this act can be studied and analyzed. The interpretative factors in statistical work can be demonstrated at a variety of levels; Gephart shows how each can be usefully illuminated through the use of ethnostatistics to produce more effective, reflexive social research.

LC Classification NumberHA29.G45 1988