Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies

This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context — the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method — meta-ethnography — for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies themselves are interpretive acts, and demonstrate that by translating metaphors and key concepts be…