The SAGE handbook of fieldwork
By: edited by Dick Hobbs and Richard Wright.
Contributors: Hobbs, Dick, 1951-; Wright, Richard, 1951-
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Social sciences -- Field work; Social sciences -- Research; Research -- Methodology
Description: This text presents an overview of this method in all its variety, introducing the reader to the strengths, weaknesses and 'real world' applications of fieldwork techniques.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The fieldwork tradition / George J. McCall; title: Praxical reasoning and the logic of field research / Gary Shank; title: Jelly's place : an ethnographic memoir / Elijah Anderson; title: Your place or mine : the geography of social research / Michael Stein; title: Fieldwork with the elite : interviewing white-collar criminals / Mary Dodge and Gilbert Geis; title: Entering the field : recruiting Latinos for ethnographic research / C.H. Browner and H. Mabel Preloran; title: Self-narratives and ethnographic fieldwork / Ben Crewe and Shadd Maruna; title: 'You don't do fieldwork, fieldwork does you' : between subjectivation and objectivation in anthropological fieldwork / Bob Simpson; title: Aural sex : the politics and moral dilemmas of studying the social construction of fantasy / Christine Mattley; title: The case for dangerous fieldwork / Bruce Jacobs; title: Fieldwork on urban male homosexuality in Mexico / Joseph Carrier; title: Knowing sexuality : epistemologies of research / Chris Haywood and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill; title: Researching sex work : dynamics, difficulties, and decisions / Teela Sanders; title: Fieldwork and the body : reflections on an embodied ethnography / Lee F. Monaghan; title: Sport ethnography : a personal account / Susan Brownell; title: Hidden identities and personal stories : international research about women in sport / Jennifer Hargreaves; title: Fieldwork and policework / Nigel Fielding; title: An ethnographer's tale : a personal view of educational ethnography / Robert G. Burgess; title: Software and fieldwork / Susanne Friese; title: Seeking science in the field : life beyond the laboratory / Steve Fuller; title: Postmodern fieldwork in health research / Nick J. Fox; title: Fieldwork in transition / Peter Kirby Manning.