Participant Observation and Interviewing

A Rejoinder

Bibliographic Data

ID2497634
AuthorsHoward S Becker (Staff of Community Studies, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri), Blanche Geer (Staff of Community Studies, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri)
Year1958
Volume17
Issue2
Pages39-40
Publication date1958-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Organization (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.17730/humo.17.2.mm7q44u54l347521
OpenAlexW2032148910
LanguageEN
Citations received17

We read Martin Trow's "Comment"1 on our "Participant Observation and Interviewing: A Comparison"2 with interest and profit. An unfortunate ambiguity in key terms led Trow to misinterpret our position radically. We would like to clear up the confusion briefly and also to discuss a few interesting questions raised in his argument

Ambiguity · Argument (complex analysis) · Confusion · Epistemology · Interview · Linguistics · Participant observation · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology

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