Studium relacji pracowników z podopiecznymi rodzinnych domów dziecka – perspektywa zastosowania metodologii badań etnograficznych
Study of relations between workers and pupils of family children’s homes – ethnographic methodology, the perspective of application

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to analyze the ethnographic methodology research in terms of possibilities of its application in the study of relations between employees and pupils of family children’s homes. The author describes – what the ethnography is and indicates the weak and strong sides of it. I also present the conflict between quantitative and qualitative methods as a competing models of conducting social research called by his precursors “positivist” and “naturalistic”. Often seen as clash of contesting philosophical stands. First stand prefers quantitative methods, second recognizes ethnography as leading – if not only – method of conduct social researches. A purposeto confront those two methods is to improve the rationality of the choices, and to ensure reliability and validity of the research.

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