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Research Realities in the Social Sciences - Negotiating Fieldwork Dilemmas (Hardcover)
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Research Realities in the Social Sciences - Negotiating Fieldwork Dilemmas (Hardcover)
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This book sets up the prospect of learning about one of social
science's most important methods--fieldwork--by discussing its
frequent failures and frustrations. While some books do take up
related issues, most represent the research process in ideal and
potentially abstract forms-a process rather void of human
fallibility and separate from the everyday context in which
academics conduct their work. The collection delivered here is much
more acutely oriented to the problems of conducting fieldwork--a
considerable contrast to the squeaky-clean depictions of fieldwork
in standard undergraduate methods texts and occasional reflexive
treatises in methodological journals.The contributors in this
volume address a wide range of issues and obstacles that they have
confronted at various stages in their respective research careers,
and their real research examples are drawn from the authors'
respective disciplines of anthropology, political science,
historical archaeology, criminology, social psychology, and
sociology. Topics range from power struggles with institutional
review boards to conducting fieldwork in dangerous settings or in
societies undergoing political transformation. In reflecting on
their personal experiences, authors provide practical guidance on
how to overcome the types of problems that typically confront
academic researchers in their daily work.This book will be a
valuable resource for all collections in the social sciences.
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