Paperback. Combines the theory with the 'how to' of ethnography, has relevance across disciplines - Social Research Methods, Health, Social Work, Management and Organisation Studies, Public Administration.Human service work is performed in many places hospitals, shelters, households - and is characterised by a complex mixture of organising principles, relations and rules. Using ethnographic methods, researchers can investigate these site-specific complexities, providing multi-dimensional and compelling analyses.Bringing together both theoretical and practical perspectives, this book explores how ethnography can be carried out within human service settings. It provides an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic creativeness and offers a more humanistic and context-sensitive approach in the field of health and social care to generating valid knowledge about today's service work.EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book shows researchers how ethnography can be carried out within human service settings, providing an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic creativeness and offering a more humanistic and context-sensitive approach to generating valid knowledge about today's service work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Doing Human Service Ethnography (Paperback)
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 2021
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1447355792
ISBN 13: 9781447355793
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Human service work is performed in many places – hospitals, shelters, households, prisons, schools, clinics – and is characterised by a complex mixture of organising principles, relations and rules. Using ethnographic methods, researchers can investigate these site-specific complexities, providing multi-dimensional and compelling analyses.

Bringing together both theoretical and practical material, this book shows researchers how ethnography can be carried out within human service settings. It provides an invaluable guide on how to apply ethnographic creativeness and offers a more humanistic and context-sensitive approach in the field of health and social care to generating valid knowledge about today’s service work.

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Tarja P�s� is Professor in Social Work at Tampere University.

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