This book features the contributions of a wide range of researchers who consider the key research problems in their given field site and how they were managed. The selections give the novice researcher a sense of the problems, uncertainties and apprehensions that are part of research, as well as the benefit of the experiences that these researchers share in dealing with those issues.
This book features the contributions of a wide range of researchers who consider the key research problems in their given field site and how they were managed. The selections give the novice researcher a sense of the problems, uncertainties and apprehensions that are part of research, as well as the benefit of the experiences that these researchers share in dealing with those issues.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTIONAn Invitation to the Field - Scott Grills Fieldwork and the Pragmatists¿ LessonPART TWO: PURSUING INTIMATE FAMILIARITY AND THE PROBLEM OF MEMBERSHIPRespecting the Human Condition - Robert Prus Pursuing Intersubjectivity in the MarketplaceDoing Ethnographic Research in Jewish Orthodox Communities - William Shaffir The Neglected Role of SociabilityThe Ethnic Outsider - Robert A Stebbins The Hurdles of Anglophone Field Research on North American FrancophonesOn Being Non-Partisan in Partisan Settings - Scott Grills Field Research among the Politically CommittedPART THREE: ISSUES IN METHODOLOGICAL PRACTICE Navigating the Family Domain - Kerry Daly and Anna Dienhart Qualitative Field DilemmasExperience, Methodological Observation and Theory - Dan Albas and Cheryl Albas A Blumerian ExcursionHanging Out with the Good ¿Ole Boys, Gangsters and Other Disreputable Characters - Richard A Brymer Field Research, Quantitative Research and Exceptional EventsPART FOUR: ETHICS, INTERVENTION AND EMOTIONALITYOrganizational Ethics and Fieldwork Realities - Leslie Irvine Negotiating Ethical Boundaries in Codependents AnonymousAnimal Passions - Clinton R Sanders The Emotional Experience of Doing Ethnography in Animal-Human Interaction SettingsPART FIVE: ETHNOGRAPHIC TEXT AND ETHNOGRAPHIC VOICEPresenting Constructions of Identity and Divinity - Jenny Blain ásatrú and Oracular SeidhrTelling Tales, Writing Stories - Richard G Mitchell Jr and Kathy Charmaz Postmodernist Visions and Realist Images in Ethnographic Writing