Qualitative Research Methods

Informationen zum Autor Darin Weinberg is a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Klappentext Qualitative Research Methods is an indispensable! definitive collection of readings for students undertaking any kind of social science inquiry. These readings represent the finest classic and contemporary scholarship in the field. Zusammenfassung A collection of readings for students undertaking any kind of social science inquiry. Editor Darin Weinberg has selected articles first and foremost for their conceptual accessibility and provides editorial introductions for students being introduced to research methods for the first time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Qualitative Research Methods: An Overview (Darin Weinberg) PART I. THE LEGACY OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS. Introduction to Part I. 1. The Stranger (Georg Simmel) 2. Paradigmatic Traditions in the History of Anthropology (George W. Stocking! Jr.) 3. Everett C. Hughs and the Development of Fieldwork in Sociology (Jean-Michel Chapoulie) PART II. QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING! LIFE HISTORY! AND NARRATIVE ANALYSIS. Introduction to Part II. 4. The Life History and the Scientific Mosaic (Howard S. Becker) 5. Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis (Marjorie L. DeVault) 6. Active Interviewing (James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium) 7. Narrative Authenticity (Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps) PART III. OBSERVATIONAL FIELDWORK. Introduction to Part III. 8. The Place of Field Work in Social Science (Everett C. Hughes) 9. On Fieldwork (Erving Goffman) 10. Difference and Dialogue: Members' Readings of Ethnographic Texts (Robert M. Emerson and Melvin Pollner) 11. In Search of Horatio Alger: Culture and Ideology in the Crack Economy (Phillipe Bourgois) PART IV: CONVERSATION AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS. Introduction to Part IV. 12. Activity Types and Language (Stephen C. Levinson) 13. Reflections on Talk and Social Structure (Emanuel A. Schegloff) 14. Refusing Invited Applause: Preliminary Observations from a Case Study of Charismatic Oratory (J. Maxwell Atkinson) PART V. RESEARCH USING ARTIFACTS AS PRIMARY SOURCES. Introduction to Part V. 15. The Interpretation of Documents and Material Culture (Ian Hodder) 16. Professional Vision (Charles Goodwin) 17. Artwork: Collection and Contemporary Culture (Chandra Mukerji) Index. ...

Product details

• Authors: D Weinberg, Darin Weinberg
• Assisted by: Darin Weinberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2001
• EAN: 9780631217626
• ISBN: 978-0-631-21762-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Blackwell Readers in Sociology; Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology; Blackwell Readers in Sociology; Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology