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Through a series of case studies, this book provides an understanding of the practice of ethnographic fieldwork in a variety of contexts, from everyday settings to formal institutions.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Contours of the Craft
PART I: SITES 1. Insider Ethnography in Professional Boxing 2. Getting at the Experience of Confinement in Detention 3. Working Against Social Order in Documenting Imprisonment 4. Site Juxtaposition and Constitutive Comparison in Provisional Encampments
PART II: SELVES 5. Is Ethnography Only for Early Career Researchers? 6. Senior Activists and Age Affiliations in Ethnographic Peering 7. Shifting Codes, Continual Vetting and Recurrent Rapport-Building 8. Creating Space for "Foreign Brides" to Talk Back
PART III: SOCIAL WORLDS 9. Preschool Social Worlds in Interactional Context 10. Going Concerns of Ethnographic Membership 11. When Fieldwork Comes Home 12. Interpretive Complexity in Language Discordant Fieldwork
PART IV: AFTERWORD Elaborating Contours of the Craft
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Amir B. Marvasti is Professor of Sociology at Penn State Altoona, USA. He is the author of
Qualitative Research in Sociology and the co-editor of
Researching Social Problems,
The Sage Handbook of Interview Research and
Doing Qualitative Research: A Comprehensive Guide.
Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Missouri, USA. He is the co-author of
Constructing the Life Course and the co-editor of
Postmodern Interviewing, Aging and Everyday Life and
Qualitative Research Practice.
Zusammenfassung
Through a series of case studies, this book provides an understanding of the practice of ethnographic fieldwork in a variety of contexts, from everyday settings to formal institutions.
