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Burd, Gene – 1983
A comparison is made between the tools of observation and research used by journalists to study society and the media, and the qualitative and clinical research tools used in the social and psychological sciences. The first part of the paper, a journalistic approach to sociology, traces the notion of the sociologist as a super-reporter using…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Ethnography, Field Studies, Journalism