The Ethnographic Imagination

Textual Constructions of Reality
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-61557-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1990, The Ethnographic Imagination explores how sociologists use literary and rhetorical conventions to convey their findings and arguments, and to 'persuade' their colleagues and students of the authenticity of their accounts. Looking at selected sociological texts in the light of contemporary social theory, the author analyses how their arguments are constructed and illustrated, and gives many new insights into the literary convention of realism and factual accounts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atkinson, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: ethnography as method and as genre2.Ethnography and the poetics of sociology3. Ethnography and the poetics of authoritative accounts4. Ethnography and the representation of reality5. Voices in the text: exemplars and the poetics of ethnography6. Narrative and the represnetation of social action7. Character and type: the textual construction of actors8. Difference, distance, and irony9. Conclusion: textual possibilities

Über Autor(innen)

Atkinson, Paul