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Experiencing Fieldwork - An Inside View of Qualitative Research (Paperback)
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Experiencing Fieldwork - An Inside View of Qualitative Research (Paperback)
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Fieldwork has often been viewed as a great black hole, untaught and
unteachable. While recent years have seen an increase in the number
of how-to manuals for doing fieldwork, they never fully convey the
complexity of the experience--the loneliness, the uncertainty, the
moral dilemmas, the ambiguities. In Experiencing Fieldwork, a group
of top ethnographers addresses various issues and challenges of the
fieldwork experience. How do you gain entree into a setting? What
tricks are there to learning the rules of the community without
alienating the people you came to study? How are good relations
maintained with informants? What happens after you leave the field?
Using examples of research from police departments to schools, from
nursing homes to motorcycle gangs, the essays in this absorbing
volume make the process of fieldwork come alive for the reader and
provide invaluable advice for those entering the field. Scholars,
researchers, and students in the fields of sociology, anthropology,
education, and organization studies will benefit from the insights
contained in this practical volume. "The depth of research
experience among the authors is impressive, as is the range of
groups they have studied--from students to survivalists, and from
health care practitioners to motorcycle gangs. . . . The articles
are ideally suited to help novices realize that emotional and
interactional quandaries are an integral part of field research,
rather than idiosyncratic experiences deriving from their own lack
of expertise." --Contemporary Sociology "The central strength of
this edited volume as an instructional tool is its organizational
respect for the theoretical tradition of symbolic interactionism. .
. . Shaffir and Stebbins succeed in characterizing the research act
as fully social action--as an ongoing production between positioned
subjects. . . . Essays in each section provide a range of
substantive materials and accounts from diverse ethnographic
settings. The result is a detailed account of the process of doing
fieldwork which provides the reader with a clear sense of
ethnography as a practical accomplishment which rarely goes
according to plan. A pedagogical strength of this text is to be
found in the range of substantive settings made available to
students. . . . Provides a tool through which students may
demystify the exotic and attend to the problematic qualities of the
everyday lives which they live. . . . A Valuable text for those
teaching research oriented field methods courses." --The Canadian
Review of Sociology and Anthropology "A very credible work. . .this
volume as a whole represents a distinctive contribution to the
fieldwork literature. Most of the chapters more than adequately
convey a meaningful sense of fieldwork experiences, and some of
them are unique, exceptionally powerful, and truly outstanding. The
text is valuable as an introduction to qualitative field research
for advanced undergraduates, and especially for graduate students.
Nonspecialists in other fields with an interest in methodology,
research practice, and qualitative fieldwork will find it an
inestimable resource. Specialists will especially appreciate the
selections that develop key concepts on the basis of copious,
concrete examples, as well as the several chapters that talk
directly to other field-workers." --Journal of Contemporary
Ethnography "For cultural anthropologists working in North America,
and especially applied anthropologists, these essay's provide an
insider's perspective on qualitative fieldwork and the many lessons
to be learned from it." --American Anthropologist
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