Person to Person: Fieldwork, Dialogue, and the Hermeneutic MethodThe first undergraduate guide to qualitative ethnographic fieldwork, this book describes a step by step procedure called the dialogical hermeneutic method of analysis, including its philosophical basis, practical application, and ethical implications. The authors delineate the characteristics of the scientific and humanistic paradigms in the social sciences and emphasize that the hermeneutic method is employed in the humanistic paradigm. They discuss