The Facts and Fictions of Qualitative Inquiry
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Qualitative Inquiry
- Vol. 2 (2) , 230-241
- https://doi.org/10.1177/107780049600200207
Abstract
William Foote Whyte's defense of the methodology used in Street Corner Society is used as an occasion to examine the work of the New Journalists who struggled to redefine the fact-fiction distinction in ethnographic and journalistic discourse. The relevance of this discourse for contemporary qualitative inquiry is discussed.Keywords
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