Contemporary Approaches to Ethnographic Research

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-93-86602-54-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 1592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 201 mm x 282 mm, Gewicht: 3170 g

Reihe: SAGE Library of Research Methods

This collection brings together readings from the vast range of ethnographic perspectives and practices to offer a multi-dimensional, detailed exploration of the ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ of ethnographic research, with a major emphasis on the contemporary application of the same. This is undertaken with the objective of offering a single, comprehensive teaching and research resource for those interested in this approach to data collection and analysis. The collection comprises four volumes that will collectively: i) consider what constitutes ‘contemporary ethnography’ as a research tool; ii) critically discuss the definitional debates surrounding ethnography; iii) illustrate how ethnography can be used in contemporary social science research where a significant emphasis is placed on the everyday, the virtual and the visual; and finally iv) reflect upon the practical, methodological, analytical and ethical aspects of current ethnographic research practice.

Volume 1: Contemporary Ethnographies: Transformation, Change and Continuities

Volume 1 aims to explore what constitutes ‘contemporary ethnography’. The core starting point is that it is better to think of ‘ethnographies’ rather than any single or simple approach or method.

Volume 2: Current Ethnographic Practices: Working in the ‘Contemporary Field’

In Volume 2 the focus is on those works that emphasise, and critically examine, the ‘practice’ of ‘doing’ ethnography within the present-day context. Here, again, the selection of material is driven by a concern with continuities and discontinuities in contemporary approaches to ethnography. The focus is on the application, extension and revision of ‘classic’ approaches to the contemporary world: on how ethnographies have become attuned to the dynamics of the everyday as that has come to be.

Volume 3: Digital Ethnography: Researching Online Worlds

Volume 3, focusing on the ascendancy of digital and virtual ethnography in recent years, serves as an exemplar of a primary concern of this collection: that of exploring developments in the approach, institutional/disciplinary developments, and more general social changes.

Volume 4: Contemporary Ethnographic Analysis: Interpretation, Meaning and Representation

Analysis, interpretation, representation and ‘making meaning’ of and from ethnographic data are the central concerns of Volume 4. The volume contains an array of papers that reflect how substantive and practical concerns shape processes of analysing ethnographic data and, as with the earlier volumes, includes papers from a variety of epistemological starting points.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hughes, Kahryn

Coulton, Jerry

Goodwin, John

Hughes, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: Contemporary Ethnographies: Transformation, Change and Continuities
The Retreat of Sociologists into the Present - Norbert Elias
The Ethnographic Choice: Why Ethnographers Do Ethnography - Keith Berry
Theory and Contrastive Explanation in Ethnography - Paul Lichterman and Isaac

Ariail Reed The Postmodern Ethnographic Flaneur and the Study of Hyper-Mediated Everyday Life - Charles Soukup
Old Fieldwork, New Ethnography: Taking the Stories Out of the Bag - Anne-Marie Smith
Ethnography by Design: On Goals and Mediating Artefacts - Fabian Segelström and Stefan Holmlid
Street Corner Society Revisted: New Questions about Old Issues - Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler and John M. Johnson
Going Back to Re-study Communities: Challenges and Opportunities - Graham Crow

The Muncie Race Riots of 1967, Representing Community Memory Through Public Performance, and Collaborative Ethnography between Faculty, Students, and the Local Community - Lee Papa and Luke Eric Lassiter
The Sound of Street Corner Society: UK Grime Music as Ethnography - Lee Barron

The Corner and the Crew: The Influence of Geography and Social Networks on Gang Violence - Andrew V. Papachristos, David M. Hureau and Anthony A. Braga
Narratives in the Old Neighborhood: An Ethnographic Study of an Urban Neighborhood’s Stories - Robin Patric Clair

Pearl Jephcott: The Legacy of a Forgotten Sociological Research Pioneer - John Goodwin and Henrietta O’Connor
They Treat Me Like I’m Scum’: Social Exclusion and Established-Outsider Relations in a British Tennis Club - Robert J. Lake
Common Culture, Commodity Fetishism and the Cultural Contradictions of Sport - Marcus Free and John Hughson
For Institutional Ethnography: Geographical Approaches to Institutions and the Everyday - Emily Billo and Alison Mountz

Rendering Invisible Punishments Visible: Using Institutional Ethnography in Feminist Criminology - Megan Welsh and Valli Rajah
Intersecting Feminist Theory and Ethnography in the Context of Social Work Research - Julia Archer
Village Ethnography and Kinship Studies: Perspectives from India and Beyond - Ester Gallo
Applications of Performance Ethnography in Nursing - Carol A.M. Smith and Agatha M. Gallo
Music on the Edge: Busking at the Cliffs of Moher and the Commodification of a Musical Landscape - Adam Kaul
Volume 2: Current Ethnographic Practices: Working in the ‘Contemporary Field’
Getting It on Record: Issues and Strategies for Ethnographic Practice in Recording Studios - Paul Thompson and Brett Lashua
Looking at and Looking Back: Visualization in Mobile Research - Lesley Murray
Regimes of Meaning: The Intersection of Space and Time in Kitchen Cultures - Daphne Demetry
Strategies for Obtaining Access to Secretive or Guarded Organizations - Torin Monahan and Jill A. Fisher
Stuck Inside of Mobile: Ethnography in Non-Places - Simon Gottschalk and Marko Salvaggio
Being Embedded: A Way Forward for Ethnographic Research - S.J. Lewis and A.J. Russell
Close But Not Too Close: Friendship as Method(ology) in Ethnographic Research Encounters - Helen Owton and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson
Street Social Capital in the Liquid City - Jonathan Ilan
The Emotionality of Participation: Various Modes of Participation in Ethnographic Fieldwork on Private Policing in Durban, South Africa - Tessa Diphoorn
Uncovering the Essence: The Why and How of Supplementing Observation with Participation in Phenomenology-based Ethnography - Michaela Pfadenhauer and Tilo Grenz
Working between Two Worlds: Gang Intervention and Street Liminality - Patrick Lopez-Aguado
Institutional Ethnography, Autoethnography, and Narrative: An Argument for Incorporating Multiple Methodologies - Nancy Taber
Indigenous Autoethnography: Exploring, Engaging, and Experiencing “Self” as a Native Method of Inquiry - Paul Whitinui
Shining Stars, Blind Sides, and “Real” Realities: Exit Rituals, Eulogy Work, and Allegories in Reality Television - Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, Clare Forstie and Savina Balasubramanian
Solid Intentions: An Archival Ethnography of Corporate Architecture and Organizational Remembering - Stephanie Decker

Walking Histories, Un/making Places: Walking Tours as Ethnography of Place - Julia Aoki and Ayaka Yoshimizu
Video and Vision: Videography of a Marian Apparition - Hubert Knoblauch and Bernt Schnettler

Waving The Banana’at Capitalism: Political Theater And Social Movement Strategy Among New York’s ‘Freegan’ Dumpster Divers - Alex V. Barnard
Between the Personal and the Professional: Ethical Challenges When Using Visual Ethnography to Understand Young People’s Use of Popular Visual Material Culture - Kristen Ali Eglinton
Frontline Collaborations: The Research Relationship in Unstable Places - Danny Hoffman and Mohammed Tarawalley, Jr
Volume 3: Digital Ethnography: Researching Online Worlds
The Virtual Objects of Ethnography - Christine Hine
Netnography Redefined - R. Kozinets
Digital Ethnography: An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research - Dhiraj Murthy
Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice - Pink, S., Horst, H., Postill, J., Hjorth, L., Lewis, T.
Ethnography Goes Online: Towards a User-centred Methodology to Research Interpersonal Communication on the Internet - Roser Beneito-Montagut
Faraway, So Close! Proximity and Distance in Ethnography Online - Stina Bengtsson
The Experience of Embodied Space in Virtual Worlds: An Ethnography of a Second Life Community - Shaowen Bardzell and William Odom
Facebook and FarmVille: A Digital Ritual Analysis of Social Gaming - Benjamin Burroughs
Knowing and Throwing Mudballs, Hearts, Pies, and Flowers: A Connective Ethnography of Gaming Practices - Deborah A. Fields and Yasmin B. Kafai
Message Received: Virtual Ethnography in Online Message Boards - Kevin F. Steinmetz
The Ethnography of New Media Worlds? Following the Case of Global Poker - John Farnsworth and Terry Austrin
Social Media Ethnography: The Digital Researcher in a Messy Web - John Postill and Sarah Pink
Internet Memes as Contested Cultural Capital: The Case of 4chan’s /b/ Board - Asaf Nissenbaum and Limor Shifman
Active Engagement with Stigmatised Communities through Digital Ethnography - Monica J. Barratt and Alexia Maddox
Power/Freedom on the Dark Web: A Digital Ethnography of the Dark Web Social Network - Robert W. Gehl
Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-ana Body Online - Natalie Boero and C.J. Pascoe
The Digital Street: An Ethnographic Study of Networked Street Life in Harlem - Jeffrey Lane
Tactile Digital Ethnography: Researching Mobile Media through the Hand - Sarah Pink, Jolynna Sinanan and Larissa Hjorth
Complementary Social Science? Quali-Quantitative Experiments in a Big Data World - Anders Blok and Morten Axel Pedersen
Literacy and Training in Digital Research: Researchers’ Views in Five Social Science and Humanities Disciplines - Panayiota Tsatsou

Volume 4: Contemporary Ethnographic Analysis: Interpretation, Meaning and Representation
Ethnography, Theory, and Sociology as a Human Science: An Interlocution - Isaac Ariail Reed
The Role of Theory in Ethnographic Research - William Julius Wilson and Anmol Chaddha
Uncovering the Essence: The Why and How of Supplementing Observation with Participation in Phenomenology-Based Ethnography - Michaela Pfadenhauer and Tilo Grenz
Life-World-Analytical Ethnography: A Phenomenology-Based Research Approach - Anne Honer and Ronald Hitzler
How Many Cases Do I Need?’ On Science and the Logic of Case Selection in Field-based Research - Mario Luis Small
Representing Shop Work: A Dual Ethnography - Lynne Pettinger
Ethnography of the Ek-Static Experience: Poésie Auto- socioanalytique in the Work of Michel Leiris - Alexander Riley
Exploring Another’s Subjective Life-World: A Phenomenological Approach - Thomas S. Eberle
The Ethnographic Machine: Experimenting with Context and Comparison in Strathernian Ethnography - Atsuro Morita
The Ethnography of ‘Particularly Sensitive’ Activities: How ‘Social Expectations of Ethnography’ may Reduce Sociological and Anthropological Scope - Anne Paillet
The Feminist Ethnographer’s Dilemma: Reconciling Progressive Research Agendas with Fieldwork Realities - Orit Avishai, Lynne Gerber, and Jennifer Randles
The Politics of Identity and Methodology in African Development Ethnography - Esayas B Geleta
Indigenous Autoethnography: Exploring, Engaging, and Experiencing “Self” as a Native Method of Inquiry - Paul Whitinui
Non-representational Ethnography: New Ways of Animating Lifeworlds - Phillip Vannini
The Seven Up! Films: Connecting the Personal and the Sociological - Barrie Thorne
Street Phenomenology: The Go-along as Ethnographic Research Tool - Margarethe Kusenbach
Marking Time in Ethnography: Uncovering Temporal Dispositions - Sinikka Elliott, Josephine Ngo McKelvy and Sarah Bowen
Multi-scalar Ethnography: An Approach for Critical Engagement with Migration and Social Change - Biao Xiang
Locating the Global in Transnational Ethnography - Takeyuki Tsuda, Maria Tapias, and Xavier Escandell
A Different Kind of Ethics - Jason Ferdinand, Geoff Pearson, Mike Rowe and Frank Worthington

Über Autor(innen)

Hughes, Jason
Jason Hughes is Professor and Head of the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester. His first book, Learning to Smoke (2003, Chicago Press), which synthesised aspects of the work of Howard Becker with that of Foucault and Elias, won the 2006 Norbert Elias prize. He has also coauthored with Ruth Simpson and Natasha Slutskaya Gender, Class and Occupation: Working Class Men Doing Dirty Work (Palgrave, 2016), and, together with Eric Dunning, Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process (Bloomsbury, 2013). Other works include the edited volumes Visual Methods (SAGE, 2012) and Internet Research Methods (SAGE, 2012), and coedited volumes Contemporary Approaches to Ethnographic Research (SAGE, 2018), Documentary and Archival Research (SAGE, 2016), Moral Panics in the Contemporary World (Bloomsbury, 2013), and Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2007). His current research, funded by Cancer Research UK, is investigating the “careers” of adolescent e-cigarette users.

Goodwin, John
John Goodwin is a Professor of Sociology and Sociological Practice at the University of Leicester. As a sociologist, John has a broad range of research interests including education to work transitions, sociological research methods, and the history of sociology. He is a recognized expert on the life and sociology of Pearl Jephcott, and he also has a significant interest in the works of Norbert Elias, C. Wright Mills, and Stanley Milgram. In terms of his sociological practice, John has expertise in qualitative secondary analysis, restudies, biographical methods, and the use of unconventional data sources in sociological research.

Hughes, Kahryn
Dr. Kahryn Hughes is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Leeds. She has received Economic and Social Research Council funding for several of their flagship methodological programmes, including the Research Methods Programme, and Timescapes. Her research over the past fifteen years has primarily aimed at methods for innovation and development. Her current research interests relate to three overlapping areas: the sociology of health inequalities, sociological theory, and research methodology. More specifically, she is interested in: addiction, poverty, time, relationality and identity.

Coulton, Jerry
Dr. Jerry Coulton is Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester. He took up his post at Leicester early in 2013, having been Head of Criminology in his previous role. His research crosses the boundaries between Sociology and Criminology, but is predominantly focused around the importance of space and place in a social context. This has taken the form of academic projects investigating the nature of crime in a specific built environment, evaluating policing initiatives in managing high crime areas, studying the impact of deindustrialisation on towns, investigating the use of largescale art projects to define public space, and evaluating the nature of the space within the contemporary airport terminal. He is primarily a qualitative researcher, employing visual and audio ethnographic methods where appropriate.