Researching amongst elites
Subtitle: challenges and opportunities in studying up
By: by Luis L.M. Aguiar and Christopher J. Schneider
Contributors: Schneider, Christopher J.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409429555; 9781409429562
Subjects: Elite (Social science); Research; Social mobility; Social classes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Redirecting the academic gaze upward; title: "Studying up" Wall Street: reflections on theory and methodology; title: "Studying up" in the context of Civil War: understanding armed defense of the status quo; title: Getting in and finding out: accessing and interviewing elites in business and work contexts; title: Interviewing celebrities: strategies for getting beyond the sound bite; title: Examining elites using qualitative media analysis: celebrity news coverage and TMZ; title: Overlooking the workers: community leaders' perspectives on plant closures and economic recession; title: The globality of globals: from floating to escape routes; title: Studying immigrant entrepreneurs: from ordinary to big players in the transnational capitalist class; title: Productive disorientation, or the ups and downs of embodied research; title: A feminist researcher interviewing elite men: reflections on "studying up" and selling out; title: Turning over rocks and unsettling memories: "studying up" Euro-Canadians in the spaces between cultures; title: Methodological challenges faced when researching in hostile environments: the SAWP in a Canadian hinterland.