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Learning About Fieldwork (Hardcover)
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Learning About Fieldwork (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Qualitative Methodology
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The last decade has witnessed a considerable increase in research
that could be broadly described as ethnographic, qualitative or a
case study among investigators working within such disciplines and
areas of study as sociology, criminology and education, as well as
sub-fields like industrial relations and the sociology of health
and healing. Such work draws on a style of investigation
traditionally used by social anthropologists and includes methods
such as participant observation, unstructured interviews and
documentary evidence. This range of research methods is commonly
included under the term field research and qualitative methodology.
It is the intention of these research annuals on qualitative
research to take up issues and debates in this area that relate to
methodology, the relationship between data collection and data
analysis, the relationship between theory and method and the
implications of qualitative research for social policy and
evaluation. Each volume of "Studies in Qualitative Methodology"
takes a specific theme relating to qualitative research. Earlier
volumes have focussed on the conduct of the qualitative research
(Volume 1) and research experience (Volume 2). In all the accounts
that have been provided, authors have been encouraged to write in
the first person and to focus upon the methodological lessons that
can be learned from field research. These themes come together in
this volume (Volume 3) which focuses on the learning experience for
a group of researchers who have conducted their first major study
for a PhD. In this respect, the essays that follow focus on the
learning experience in the field and on the process of doing
research, and deal with such issues as the biography of the
researcher, the role of personal experience, the process of gaining
access (through sponsors, gatekeepers and informants), the
collection of data through the management of field relations, the
analysis of data and the writing process. The authors demonstrate
the complexity of conducting fieldwork and the range of
interpersonnal skills that need to be used alongside research
design, writing and theorizing.
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