not at all feasible.
The qualitative methods used in compiling the data for this book can also be associated with a second advantage. The use of field study/ethnographic techniques, especially when studying complex, multi-determined phenomena (such as crack-cocaine usage) afforded the researchers the tools for investigative work conducted in a natural setting; this allowed the researchers a more realistic observation to be made of the phenomena rather than the limited observation that is possible in the artificial and limited laboratory setting controlled experiments so often require.
A third advantage of the use of qualitative methods concerns the setting. It is often assumed in ethnographic research that any social behavior of interest (e.g., crack-cocaine use by women) is not independent of the setting in which it occurs (Eshleman, Cashion & Basirico, 1988). The ethnographic ap
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