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On the Value of Ethnography: Sociology and Public Policy

A Dialogue

Howard S. Becker

San Francisco

Herbert J. Gans

Columbia University

Katherine S. Newman

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Diane Vaughan

Boston College

Reproduced below is a conversation and question/answer session about the relationship of ethnography to public policy. The conversation took place in Philadelphia on November 7, 2003. Comments by Jean-Michel Chapoulie follow the dialogue (p. 277).

Key Words: ethnography • public policy • sociological concepts • knowledge utilization • NASA • politicians • underdogs

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 595, No. 1, 264-276 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716204266599
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