Ethnography and Human Development

Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry

By: Richard Jessor (Editor), Anne Colby (Editor), Richard A. Shweder (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 August 1996 | Edition Number 1

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Studies of human development have taken an ethnographic turn in the 1990s. In this volume, leading anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists discuss how qualitative methodologies have strengthened our understanding of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development, and of the difficulties of growing up in contemporary society.
Part 1, informed by a post-positivist philosophy of science, argues for the validity of ethnographic knowledge. Part 2 examines a range of qualitative methods, from participant observation to the hermeneutic elaboration of texts. In Part 3, ethnographic methods are applied to issues of human development across the life span and to social problems including poverty, racial and ethnic marginality, and crime.
Restoring ethnographic methods to a central place in social inquiry, these twenty-two lively essays will interest everyone concerned with the epistemological problems of context, meaning, and subjectivity in the behavioral sciences.

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Preface
List of Contributors
Ethnographic Methods in Contemporary Perspective Richard Jessor
True Ethnography: The Lore, the Law, and the Lure
The Epistemology of Qualitative Research
Missing Persons: Recovering Developmental Stories/Histories
Culture, Development
The Epistemological Crisis in the Human Disciplines: Letting the Old Do the Work of the New
Can We Overcome Worldview Incommensurability/Relativity in Trying to Understand the Other?
Quanta and Qualia: What Is the "Object" of Ethnographic Method?
Instantiating Culture through Discourse Practices: Some Personal Reflections on Socialization and How to Study It
Neighborhood Social Organization: A Forgotten Object of Ethnographic Study?
Ruling Places: Adaptation in Development by Inner-City Youth Shirley Brice Heath
Role-Relationship Models: A Person-Schematic Method for Inferring Beliefs about Identity and Social Action
Studying Cognitive Development in Sociocultural Context: The Development of a Practice-Based Approach
Why Ethnography Should Be the Most Important Method in the Study of Human Development
The Multiple Contexts of Human Development
Ideology and Subjectivity: Midlife and Menopause in Japan and North America
Ethnography, Biography, and Cultural History: Generational Paradigms in Human Development
Ethnographic Insights on Social Context and Adolescent Development among Inner-City African-American Teens
Transitions in Early Childhood: The Promise of Comparative, Longitudinal Ethnography
Nature, Second Nature, and Individual Development: An Ethnographic Opportunity
The Uneasy Engagement of Human Development and Ethnography
Author Index
Subject Index
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