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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Fieldwork. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2005 (OCoLC)647082583 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher J Pole |
ISBN: | 1412900301 9781412900300 |
OCLC Number: | 57639531 |
Description: | 4 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | v. 1. Origins and definitions of fieldwork -- v. 2. The fieldwork experience: methods and methodology -- v. 3. Ethics and politics in fieldwork -- v. 4. Analysis, outcomes, and reflections. VOLUME 1: Origins and definitions of fieldwork -- SECTION 1: What is fieldwork? -- Introduction: The place of field work in social science / Everett C. Hughes -- Approaches to fields work / Robert G Burgess -- The meaning of field work / Buford H .Junker -- Fieldwork vs. (just) being in the field / Harry F. Wolcott -- SECTION 2: Fieldwork and theory -- Social theory in field work / Joseph Bensman & Arthur J. Vidich -- The method of field-work and the invisible facts of native law and economics / Bronislaw Malinowski -- Theoretical presuppositions of fieldwork / Rosalie H. Wax -- Fieldwork and the empirical tradition / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- The logic and social psychology of field research / Leonard Schatzman & Anselm L. Strauss -- Situating feminist dilemmas in fieldwork / Diane L. Wolf -- SECTION 3: Early fieldwork -- Frontier anthropologist: concerning Henry Rowe Schoolcraft / H.R. Hays -- The convergent period c.1835 -- 1859 / T.K. Penniman -- The ethnographer's magic -- fieldwork in British anthropology from Tyler to Malinowski / George W. Stocking(Jr) -- Confessions of ignorance and failure / Bronislaw Malinowski -- SECTION 4: Fieldwork closer to home -- On anthropology "at home" / Donald A. Messerschmidt -- Ethnography reconstructed -- professional stranger at fifteen / A. Agar -- The development of field research methods / Martin Bulmer -- SECTION 5: Fieldwork and fieldworkers -- Fieldworkers as professionals / S. Kleinman & M. Copp -- Gender and fieldwork relationships / Carol A.B. Warren -- The sex(ual) field / Amanda Coffey. VOLUME 2: The fieldwork experience: methods and methodology -- SECTION 1: Early days in the field -- First day in the field / Blanche Geer -- Managing a convincing self-preservation: some personal reflections on entering the field / William B. Shaffir -- Lesu: introduction & first night alone / Hortense Powdermaker -- SECTION 2: Sampling in the field -- Sampling in ethnographic field work / John J. Honigmann -- Decision taking in the fieldwork process: Theoretical sampling and collaborative writing / Janet Finch & Jennifer Mason -- SECTION 3: Observing in the field -- Roles in sociological field observation / Raymong L. Gold -- Fieldwork: The basic arts / Harry F. Wolcott -- Cracking diamonds; observer role in little league baseball settings and the acquisition of social competence / Gary Alan Fine -- Getting on the door and staying there: A covert participant observational study bouncers / David Calvey -- Uncovering the ethnographer / Odette Parry -- SECTION 4: Field talk: Interviews and conversations -- The spoken word / Beatrice & Sydney Webb -- Conversations with a purpose: the ethnographic interview in educational research / Robert G. Burgess -- Is oral history /Auto Biography? / Joanna Bornat -- SECTION 5: Documents and the field --Evidence and the proof in documentary research : 1. Some specific problems of documentary research / Jennifer Platt -- Mass-observation's fieldwork methods / Liz Stanley -- "Déjá Entendu":The liminal qualities of anthropological fieldnotes / Jean E. Jackson SECTION 6: Viewing the field: visual methods -- Visual anthropology: image, object and interpretation / Marcus Banks -- Picture this: researching child workers / Angela Bolton, Christopher Pole & Phillip Mizen -- SECTION 7: Refelecting on fieldwork experience -- Method of study / Ken Pryce -- 'Like that Desmond Morris?' / Gary Armstrong. and ethics of fieldwork: Muddy boots and grubby hands / Maurice Punch -- Deconstructing the field / Roy Turner -- SECTION 2 : Taking sides -- Who's side are we on? / Howard S. Becker -- Taking sides in research: an assessment of the rationales for partisanship / Martyn Hammersley -- Don't shoot the messengers : A study in the politics and control of funded research / Christopher Pole -- SECTION 3: Sensitive and stressful situations -- Sensitivity as a problem in field research: A study of routine policing in Northen Ireland / John D. Brewer -- -- Reflections on fieldwork in stressful situations / Sue Cannon -- Fieldworker blues: emotional stress and research . Underinvolvement in fieldwork settings / Louis Corsino -- Putting down smoke: emotion and engagement in participant observation / John Hockey -- Negotiating power and expertise in the field / Lynne Haney -- On being sane in insane places / D.L. Rosenhan -- Problems in the publication of field studies / Howard S. Becker -- SECTION 4: Dilemmas and responsibilities -- -- Ethical dilemmas: The demands and expectations of various audiences / Marlene de Laine -- Some ethical considerations on field-work with the police / Clive Norris -- Blowing the whistle on police violence: gender, ethnography and ethics / Louise Westmarland -- The merits and demerits of covert participant observation / Martin Bulmer -- Secrecy, risk and responsibility / R.G. Mitchell (Jr) -- Getting close by staying distant: fieldwork with proselytizing groups / David F. Gordon. VOLUME 4: Analysis, outcomes and reflections -- SECTION 1: Analysing fieldwork -- Strategy for analysing / L. Schatzman & A. Strauss -- Grounded theory methodology : an overview / Anselm Strauss & Juliet Corbin -- Grounded theory and field research / Derek Layder -- Focusing the study and analysing the data / William Foote White -- Meanings and metaphors / Amanda Coffey & Paul Atkinson -- SECTION 2: Fieldwork and the author -- Reinstating the author / Clive Seale -- Being here / Clifford Geertz -- Being there / Clifford Geertz -- On ethnographic authority / James Clifford -- SECTION 3 : Representing fieldwork -- Ethnography and the representation of reality / Paul Atkinson -- Ethnography as narrative / Edward M. Bruner -- The rhetoric turn in ethnography / Martyn Hammersley -- Administrating poison: reporting observations / Jack Sanger -- SECTION 4: Autoethnography and writing as method -- Autoethnography, personal narrative, reflexivity / Carolyn Ellis & Arthur P. Bochner -- Writing : A method of inquiry / Laural Richardson -- SECTION 5: Leaving the field -- Leaving the dim-moon city of delight: terminating your fieldwork / Sara Delamont -- Keeping in touch: maintaining contact with stigmatized subjects / Brian Miller & Laud Humphreys. |
Series Title: | Sage benchmarks in social research methods. |
Responsibility: | edited by Christopher Pole. |
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