On Ethnography

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8560-1
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 275 g

In turn creative thinker and street flâneur, careful planner and adventurer, empathic listener and distant voyeur, recluse writer and active participant: the ethnographer is a multifaceted researcher of social worlds and social life.

In this book, sociologists Sarah Daynes and Terry Williams team up to explore the art of ethnographic research and the many complex decisions it requires. Using their extensive fieldwork experience in the United States and Europe, and hours spent in the classroom training new ethnographers, they illustrate, discuss, and reflect on the key skills and tools required for successful research, including research design, entry and exit, participant observation, fieldnotes, ethics, and writing up.

Covering both the theoretical foundations and practical realities of ethnography, this highly readable and entertaining book will be invaluable to students in sociology and other disciplines in which ethnography has become a core qualitative research method.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daynes, Sarah

Williams, Terry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* The Mission
* Chapter 1 Foundations of ethnographic fieldwork
* Chapter 2 Thinking about it
* Chapter 3 Getting involved
* Chapter 4 Being there
* Chapter 5 Seeing, Writing, Narrating Ñ Field Notes
* Chapter 6 Writing about it
* References

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Daynes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Terry Williams is Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research