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Author_Gary Alan Fine
Author_Kent L. Sandstrom
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Child Development
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Qualitative Research
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- ISBN 9780803933651
- Weight: 150g
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 1988
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When studying children too often it is assumed that "our" view of the world will be their view of the world. Knowing Children explores this lofty assumption and explodes various myths that researchers commonly hold about children. Using the assumptions that minors are knowledgeable about their world and that the worlds of minors are special and noteworthy, Fine and Sandstrom explore the worlds of children and demonstrate that adults can greatly benefit from studying their worlds through the use of qualitative research methods. In this insightful volume Fine and Sandstrom present timely methodological statements on doing participant observation with children. Drawing on case studies of children from three age groups they provide the first extended treatment of methodological problems with qualitative research involving children which integrates previous writings. They cover general issues involved in research with children, focusing on methodological and ethical concerns as well. This volume provides a fresh view of the worlds of children while providing an invaluable reference for the ethnographic researcher. Knowing Children helps the researcher understand how and why children react to adults doing ethnographic research. This work will prove to be specifically of interest to applied researchers in child development and education. It will also be of interest to those in other human services and more traditional ethnographic fields.
Gary Alan Fine is James E. Johnson Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is a social psychologist, who has conducted a series of microsociological ethnographies of work sites and cultural scenes. His work focuses on the role of group cultures in shaping interaction orders and social structures. He is the author of Tiny Publics: A Theory of Group Action and Culture.
