ABSTRACT This article looks back at several of the classic ethnographies in British sociology of education and shows that quantitative work played a significant part in many of them, and that quantitative results were part of the evidence used to support claims and arguments put forward by the authors. The article then examines some more recent ethnographies and shows that quantitative research within them has dwindled. It is then claimed that the artificial division between quantitative and qualitative research in education has made research poorer, and that the categorisation of ethnographic research as qualitative has been detrimental to ethnography. Some ways in which more quantitative work could (and often should) be included are then suggested.

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人种学不是定性的

摘要本文回顾了英国教育社会学中的几种经典的人种志，并指出定量工作在其中许多方面发挥了重要作用，而定量结果是支持作者提出的主张和论点的证据的一部分。 。然后，文章检查了一些最近的民族志，并显示其中的定量研究在减少。有人认为，教育中定量研究和定性研究之间的人为划分使研究变得更加困难，民族志研究作为定性的分类对民族志不利。然后提出了一些可以（通常应该）包括更多定量工作的方法。