Contemporary Field Research Perspectives and Formulations

Name: Contemporary Field Research Perspectives and Formulations
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ISBN: 9781577661856

ISBN-10: 1577661850

ISBN-13: 9781577661856

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Robert M. Emerson

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List price: $38.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Waveland Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 433
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Robert M. Emerson is professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of California , Los Angeles . He is the author of Contemporary Field Research: Perspectives and Formulations, now in its second edition.



Preface


Introduction: The Development of Ethnographic Field Research



The Face of Contemporary Ethnography



Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture




Telling the Convict Code




Ethnography and the Representation of Reality




Ethnography and Realism




Fieldwork Practice: Issues in Participant Observation



On Fieldwork




Insider Field Research in Minority Communities




On the Evolution of Sidewalk




How the Problem of "Crafting Selves" Emerged




Gender and Fieldwork Relations




Learning from Kids




Constructing Participant/Observation Relations




Trial and Tribulations: Courts, Ethnography, and the Need for an Evidentiary Privilege for Academic Researchers




Producing Ethnographies: Theory, Evidence and Representation



The Epistemology of Qualitative Research




Analytic Induction Revisited




Grounded Theory




Tricks of the Trade




Ethnography's Warrants




Techniques of Validation in Qualitative Research: A Critical Commentary



References


Index