Learning About Fieldwork

Focuses on the learning experience of a group of researchers conducting their first major study for a PhD. The essays deal with such issues as the role of personal experience, the collection of data through the management of field relations, the analysis of data, and the writing process.

List of contents

Fieldwork, a learning experience, Robert G.Burgess; strangers or sisters? and exploration of familiarity, strangeness and power in research, Caroline Currer; a stranger in the house - researching the stepfamily, Christina Hughes; making sense of the research setting and making the research; setting make sense, Odette Parry; researching recruitment - qualitative methods and sex discrimination, David L.Collinson; nobody said it had to be easy - postgraduate field research in Northern Ireland, Raymond M.Lee; reflections on fieldwork in stressful situation, Sue Cannon; the seven year itch - reflections on writing a thesis, Bernadette Casey; stories about stories - through qualitative research to ethnographic theory, Gron Davies.

Summary

Focuses on the learning experience of a group of researchers conducting their first major study for a PhD. The essays deal with such issues as the role of personal experience, the collection of data through the management of field relations, the analysis of data, and the writing process.

Product details

• Authors: Robert G. Burgess, BURGESS R G, R. G. Burgess R. G., Christopher Pole
• Assisted by: Robert G. Burgess (Editor), Christopher Pole (Editor)
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1992
• EAN: 9781559382465
• ISBN: 978-1-55938-246-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 561 g
• Series: Studies in Qualitative Methodo
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)