Fieldwork
Fieldwork is one of the richest research methods in the Social Sciences. Originally, the preserve of anthropologists, notably Bronislaw Malinowski, it has now achieved a much wider relevance. This four volume set provides the most systematic guide to the method.
4 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
9781412900300, 1412900301
57639531
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