Doing Ethnographic Research

Fieldwork Settings
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-7619-0891-3
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

There is nothing quite so exciting and daunting as taking your first steps into the field as an ethnographic researcher. This collection of essays features the contributions of a wide range of researchers who consider the key research problems in their given field site and how they were managed. The selections give a novice researcher a sense of the problems, uncertainties, and apprehensions that are part of the research act, as well as the benefit of the experiences that these researchers share in dealing with those issues. Editor Scott Grills presents a collection that takes the reader through the natural history of the research act from establishing oneself in the fieldwork setting to presentation and representation issues. Doing Ethnographic Research is ideally suited for use in a research methods class. As an "ethnography of ethnography," it provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into fieldwork and simultaneously shows students how research done in substantive areas quite distant from their own can be powerfully relevant and revealing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grills, Scott

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
An Invitation to the Field - Scott Grills
Fieldwork and the Pragmatists' Lesson
PART TWO: PURSUING INTIMATE FAMILIARITY AND THE PROBLEM OF MEMBERSHIP
Respecting the Human Condition - Robert Prus
Pursuing Intersubjectivity in the Marketplace
Doing Ethnographic Research in Jewish Orthodox Communities - William Shaffir
The Neglected Role of Sociability
The Ethnic Outsider - Robert A Stebbins
The Hurdles of Anglophone Field Research on North American Francophones
On Being Non-Partisan in Partisan Settings - Scott Grills
Field Research among the Politically Committed
PART THREE: ISSUES IN METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICE

Navigating the Family Domain - Kerry Daly and Anna Dienhart
Qualitative Field Dilemmas
Experience, Methodological Observation and Theory - Dan Albas and Cheryl Albas
A Blumerian Excursion
Hanging Out with the Good 'Ole Boys, Gangsters and Other Disreputable Characters - Richard A Brymer
Field Research, Quantitative Research and Exceptional Events
PART FOUR: ETHICS, INTERVENTION AND EMOTIONALITY
Organizational Ethics and Fieldwork Realities - Leslie Irvine
Negotiating Ethical Boundaries in Codependents Anonymous
Animal Passions - Clinton R Sanders
The Emotional Experience of Doing Ethnography in Animal-Human Interaction Settings
PART FIVE: ETHNOGRAPHIC TEXT AND ETHNOGRAPHIC VOICE
Presenting Constructions of Identity and Divinity - Jenny Blain
ásatrú and Oracular Seidhr
Telling Tales, Writing Stories - Richard G Mitchell Jr and Kathy Charmaz
Postmodernist Visions and Realist Images in Ethnographic Writing