Using computers to analyze ethnographic field data: theoretical and practical considerations.
Computer-assisted data analysis is usually associated with the analysis of aggregate data according to the tenets of logical positivism. But there are more than twenty computer programs designed to assist researchers analyzing ethnographic data, and these programs may be used by researchers with a...
| Publicado en: | Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 24; pp. 477 - 499 |
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Annual Reviews Inc.
1998
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