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    Learning from the Field-Focusing the Study and Analyzing the Data
    (Sage Publications, 1984) Whyte, William Foote
    Good field methods are necessary, but not sufficient, for good re search You may be a skilled and diligent observer and interviewer and gather "rich data," but unless you have good ideas about how to locus the study and analyze those data, your project will yield little of value. Finding the focus for a study using anthropological field methods is a different process than finding a focus for a survey. By its very nature, the survey must be focused that is, the problems defined and the variables specified-before beginning the data gathering process.