Adopting a symbolic interactionist perspective and building extensively on the ethnographic research tradition, this book analyzes the mystique that often accompanies deviance by examining deviance as an ongoing feature of community life. Because deviance is approached in nonprescriptive ways, as a product of community interchange, the emphasis here is on the ways in which deviance is defined, engaged, and regulated. It is examined as the product of human association, as something that is generated by people as they interact with one another, assume viewpoints and initiatives, and try to influence and resist one another within the context of community life. Prus and Grills do not attempt to address various deviant behaviors; instead, they provide readers with a glimpse into how deviance is formulated, practiced, viewed, and treated. Who defines deviance? Why? What are the effects of deviance on others? How do subcultures form? These and other questions are answered in this unique approach to the study of deviance. Providing a conceptually coherent framework for approaching the study of deviance as an ongoing feature of the human community, the authors pay special attention to the many theaters of operation in which people come together and engage one another with respect to morality and deviance. Recognizing that audience definitions of deviance are pivotal to community notions of reality and actual interaction, consideration is given to the interrelated processes of defining deviance, identifying deviants, regulating deviance informally and formally, and experiencing treatment and disinvolvement. This thoughtful consideration serves to shed new light on the mystique that has beencreated around ideas about deviance.

There is nothing quite so exciting and daunting as taking your first steps into the field as an ethnographic researcher. This collection of essays 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 a novice researcher a sense of the problems, uncertainties, and apprehensions that are part of the research act, as well as the benefit of the experiences that these researchers share in dealing with those issues. Editor Scott Grills presents a collection that takes the reader through the natural history of the research act from establishing oneself in the fieldwork setting to presentation and representation issues. Doing Ethnographic Research is ideally suited for use in a research methods class. As an "ethnography of ethnography," it provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into fieldwork and simultaneously shows students how research done in substantive areas quite distant from their own can be powerfully relevant and revealing.

Wie leisten Menschen Ordnung in Beziehungen? Wie laufen die Prozesse ab, in denen Menschen kreativ werden? Was leistet ein Tagtraum? Wie handeln Menschen mit kleinen Weigerungen, sich anzupassen, Beziehungen untereinander aus? Wie entwickelt sich eine Ausschreitung? Wie schwer ist es, Alltag realitatsnah zu imitieren? Diese und weitere Fragen behandeln die Beitrage des Bandes "Kleine Geheimnisse des Alltags," der sich einer "geerdeten Soziologie" verschrieben hat. Er lasst interessierte Leser und Leserinnen die Prozesse entdecken, in denen scheinbar einfache Selbstverstandlichkeiten des Alltags erst im Zusammenspiel von menschlichen Praktiken der Bedeutungsaushandlung geleistet werden. Kleinigkeiten und Alltaglichkeiten als aufwandige und kreative Leistungen zu erkennen, die alles andere als "naturlich," "instinktiv" oder "selbstverstandlich" sind, wenn sie naher betrachtet werden, bietet einen Einblick in die "Matrix" der sozialen Welt an einem bestimmten ihrer Knotenpunkte. Der "Alltag" dieses Bandes beschreibt daher keine abgetrennte Sektion der Welt, sondern eine Orientierung zur konstanten Leistung von Bedeutung in einem pluralistischen, "dicht bevolkerten" Universum.

There is nothing quite so exciting and daunting as taking your first steps into the field as an ethnographic researcher. This collection of essays 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 a novice researcher a sense of the problems, uncertainties, and apprehensions that are part of the research act, as well as the benefit of the experiences that these researchers share in dealing with those issues. Editor Scott Grills presents a collection that takes the reader through the natural history of the research act from establishing oneself in the fieldwork setting to presentation and representation issues. Doing Ethnographic Research is ideally suited for use in a research methods class. As an "ethnography of ethnography," it provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into fieldwork and simultaneously shows students how research done in substantive areas quite distant from their own can be powerfully relevant and revealing.