Doing Critical Ethnography by Jim Thomas - 9780803939233

Doing Critical EthnographyAuthor(s): Jim Thomas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: SAGE Publications Inc, United States\nImprint: SAGE Publications Inc\nISBN-13: 9780803939233, 978-0803939233\nSynopsis\n\""The book offers communication researchers some of the best recent work on qualitative inquiry in the human disciplines. . . . Published by Sage, the leading publisher of qualitative research in the social sciences today. . . . Jim Thomas?s method, well displayed in illustrations drawn from his emancipatory work in prisons, has important connections to the participatory action (Friere) and critical theory traditions. . . . This work brings the communication scholar up-to-date on where qualitative methods are in current sociological and educational discourse.\""\n\n--Norman K. Denzin in Journal of Communication\n\nIf a researcher?s responsibility entails the righting of social wrongs and producing valid research results, how is it possible to juxtapose these two goals? Representing the mar.