Interpreting the Field

Accounts of Ethnography
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-825841-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

This book has two central aims. First, to demonstrate the importance of qualitative research through an examination of the type of data that it is capable of producing. Second, to do so using first-hand research accounts of ethnographic work. Toward these ends, the contributors cover a variety of topics: drug dealing; football hooliganism; entrepreneurial crime; the culture of policing; policing and the miners' strike; protest at Greenham Common; the politics of organizational change and race and sexuality in the field-work process. In reflecting upon personal experiences of field-work, together with the research strategies employed, the authors illustrate their arguments in both a detailed and accessible manner. The themes they discuss include the ethics and politics of field-work; reflexivity and data production; feminist field-work; the publication and production of studies, and an examination of the contrasting cultures of academia and what is normally termed the `field', where knowledges are authenticated according to different rules and power relations.

As a result, Interpreting the Field, will have wide appeal for those who wish to understand the dynamics, advantages, and problems associated with ethnographic work: for example, undergraduates and post-graduates undertaking their own research. It will also be of interest to methodologists and those working in the areas of crime, deviance, and organizational studies, as well as general readers of social science literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hobbs, Colleen A.

May, Timothy

Hobbs, Dick

May, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part I: Field-Work

- 1: Gary Armstrong: Like that Desmond Morris?

- 2: Dick Hobbs: Peer, Careers, and Academic Fears Writing as Field-Work

- Part II: Politics

- 3: Tim May: Feeling Matter: Inverting the Hidden Equation

- 4: Penny Green: Taking Sides: Partisan Research on the 1984-5 Miners' Strike

- Part III

- 5: Clive Norris: Some Ethical Considerations on Field-Work with the Police

- 6: Jane Fountain: Dealing with Data

- Part IV: Women and Ethnography

- 7: Sasha Roseneil: Greenham Revisited: Researching Myself and My Sisters

- 8: H. L. Ackers: Racism, Sexuality, and the Process of Ethnographic Research

Über Autor(innen)

Dick Hobbs is a well known sociologist and author of Doing the Business (Clarendon Paperbacks, March 1993), which won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the vest first sociology book by a new author when it was first published in 1988.

Tim May previously taught at the University of Durham and has been a researcher at Plymouth Polytechnic and the Centre for Criminological Research, Oxford.