Observation Methods

Four-Volume Set Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4462-0811-3
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 1632 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 131 mm, Gewicht: 3459 g

Reihe: SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods

Observation - as a deliberate, organized and systematic form of 'looking' or 'watching' - is integral to all scientific inquiry. It is a process that is guided by rational principles and assumptions, and motivated by an interest in obtaining data on occurrences, events, processes, reactions, forms of conduct and relationships.

This collection, drawing together key contributions on observation methods in social research, provides comprehensive coverage of the historical development of observational methods and techniques and offers analytic reflection on the various issues involved in the scientific practice of observation. The volumes demonstrate the rich diversity of observational methods, techniques and associated innovations, as well as providing examples of results obtained by studies now considered to be social science classics. The volumes contain important material concerned with the development and refinement of observational methods, as well as the theoretical and philosophical understandings and assumptions integral to observation as a process. Sources that explore the practical matters involved in the stages of preparing for, engaging in, and analysing observations also feature, along with material from classic studies using observational methods. Finally, in addition to critiques of methods of observation, there are sources responding to recent developments within observational methods which utilise the possibilities afforded by contemporary digital and information technology in creative ways.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smart, Barry

Peggs, Kay

Burridge, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME ONE:

PART ONE: OBSERVATION: PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND ART
The Bucket and the Searchlight - Karl Popper
Two Theories of Knowledge
Revolutions as Changes of World View - Thomas Kuhn
Techniques of the Observer - Jonathan Crary
Interpretation - William Thompson
Observer Effects
Seeing and Knowing - Michel Foucault
Rules for the Observation of Social Facts - Emile Durkheim
Weber's Verstehen and the History of Qualitative Research - Jennifer Platt
The Missing Link

The Definitions of Sociology and of Social Action - Max Weber
Social Relationships between Contemporaries and Indirect Social Observation - Alfred Sch tz
Some Basic Problems of Interpretive Sociology - Alfred Sch tz

Unexpected Interactions - Matthias Gross
Georg Simmel and the Observation of Nature
Scopic Regimes of Modernity - Martin Jay
Foucault's Art of Seeing - John Rajchman
PART TWO: REFLECTIONS ON THE PRACTICE OF OBSERVATION

Excerpt from The Observation of Savage Peoples - Joseph-Marie baron de Gérando
Roles in Sociological Field Observation - Raymond Gold

Performing Ethnography and Ethnography of Performance - Paul Atkinson
Accounts, Interviews and Observations - Robert Dingwall
Observational Fieldwork - Robert Emerson
Everett C Hughes and the Development of Fieldwork in Sociology - Jean-Michel Chapoulie
The Chicago School and First-Hand Data - Jennifer Platt
Mass Observation - Penny Summerfield
Social Research or Social Movement?

VOLUME TWO:

A Problem of Sociological Praxis - Michal Bodemann
The Case for Interventive Observation in Fieldwork
Benefits of 'Observer Effects' - Torin Monahan and Jill Fisher
Lessons from the Field
Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography? - Judith Stacey
On Tricky Ground - Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Researching the Native in the Age of Uncertainty

Ethnographic Showcases, 1870-1930 - Raymond Corbey
Why Look at Animals - John Berger
PART ONE: ETHICS, RISK AND OBSERVATION
Ethical Challenges in Participant Observation - Jun Li

A Reflection on Ethnographic Fieldwork
The Risk of 'Going Observationalist' - Robert Labaree
Negotiating the Hidden Dilemmas of Being an Insider Participant Observer
Informed Consent, Anticipatory Regulation and Ethnographic Practice - Elizabeth Murphy and Robert Dingwall
The Art and Politics of Covert Research - David Calvey
Doing 'Situated Ethics in the Field
Covert Participant Observation - Richard Hilbert
On Its Nature and Practice
Between Overt and Covert Research - Peter Lugosi
Concealment and Disclosure in an Ethnographic Study of a Commercial Hospitality
Ethical Covert Research - Paul Spicker
Lone Researchers at Sea - Helen Sampson and Michelle Thomas
Gender Risk and Responsibility
When Is Disguise Justified? Alternatives to Covert Participation Observation - Martin Bulmer
A Comment on Disguised Observation in Sociology - Kai Erikson
New Jersey: Transaction - Laud Humphreys
Controversies Surrounding Laud Humphreys' Tearoom Trade - Michael Lenza

An Unsettling Example of Politics and Power in Methodological Critiques

Working in Hostile Environments - Nigel Fielding
Dangerous Fieldwork Re-Examined - Pamela Nilan
The Question of Researcher Subject Position
Doing Participant Observation in a Psychiatric Hospital - Christine Oeye, Anne Karen Bjelland and Aina Skorpen
Research Ethics Resumed
The Researcher as Hooligan - Geoff Pearson
Where 'Participant' Observation Means Breaking the Law
Ethnographic Intimacy - Maria Pérez-y-Pérez and Tony Stanley
Thinking through the Ethics of Social Research in Sex Worlds
VOLUME THREE

PART ONE: PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION

The Con Man as a Model Organism - Michael Pettit
The Methodological Roots of Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical Self
A Note on Participant Observation - Colin Bell

Über Autor(innen)

Smart, Barry
Barry Smart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Portsmouth and has longstanding research interests in the fields of social theory, political economy, and philosophy. His research interests include critical social research ethics; higher education; and collaborative work on veganism, ethics, lifestyle and environment.

Burridge, Joseph
Joseph Burridge is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth. Joseph has considerable editorial experience having co-edited a special issue of the journal Social Semiotics (Vol 18, Issue 3, 2008), which was re-published as an edited book Analysing Media Discourse (Routledge, 2011). He also organised and edited a special issue of the journal Food and Foodways (Vol 20, Issue 1, 2012). Joseph teaches research methods across the Portsmouth curriculum, as well as offering a final year module in his area of specialist interest: the sociology of food. While Joseph’s main research interests lie in the areas of food and culture, he is also interested in the sociology of culture more generally, along with rhetoric, argumentation, discursive methods, and media representations.

Peggs, Kay
Kay Peggs is Professor of Sociology at Kingston University (UK), Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Animal Ethics, and Visiting Fellow in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth (UK). Previously she has worked at the universities of Warwick, Surrey, Portsmouth and Winchester. Her publications include: Identity and Repartnering after Separation (Palgrave, 2007) with Richard Lampard, Animals and Sociology (Palgrave, 2012) and numerous essays and articles in journals such as Sociology, The British Journal of Sociology, and The Sociological Review. She is co-editor of Observation Methods (Sage, 2013) and is assistant editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics. Forthcoming publications include Experiments, Animal Bodies and Human Values (Routledge) and the co-authored book (Not) Consuming Animals: Ethics, Environment and Lifestyle Choices (Routledge), which is based on the research project she led on veganism, ethics and lifestyle.