The SAGE Handbook of Fieldwork by Dick Hobbs (English) Hardcover Book

Description: The SAGE Handbook of Fieldwork by Dick Hobbs, Richard Wright Presents the major overview of the Fieldwork method in all its variety, introducing the reader to the strengths, weaknesses, and real world applications of fieldwork techniques. This book contains 22 chosen chapters, which are each based on a field of empirical enquiry, written by an acknowledged expert in the field. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This is an excellent collection of papers which celebrates the best of traditional approaches to fieldwork, whilst also looking to its future. The Handbook will quickly become essential reading for the novice and experienced fieldworker across many of the social sciences - Chris Pole, University of LeicesterFieldwork is widely practiced but little written about, yet accounts of the exotic, mundane, complex and often dangerous are central to not only sociology and anthropology but also geography, social psychology and criminology. In all these - increasingly overlapping - fields, experience underlies any comprehensive understanding of social life. The SAGE Handbook of Fieldwork presents the first major overview of this method in all its variety, introducing the reader to the strengths, weaknesses, and real world applications of fieldwork techniques. Its 22 carefully chosen chapters are each based on a substantive field of empirical enquiry, written by an acknowledged expert in the field. The range is impressive: from the traditional to the virtual, concerning subjects as diverse as emotion, sexuality, sport, embodiment, identity, self-narrative, fieldwork in organizations, science and technology. Specifically intended for use in undergraduate and postgraduate courses in qualitative research design and methodology in sociology, anthropology, criminology, urban studies, social geography, public health and education, the handbook will also prove beneficial to academic researchers in these and other disciplines. Author Biography Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology. He worked in a number of manual and clerical jobs before training as a schoolteacher and working in London schools. He undertook postgraduate work at the LSE and the University of Surrey, and worked at the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford, and briefly at the Polytechnic of Central London, before taking up a post at Durham University in 1990 where he worked in both the Sociology and Law Departments. He joined the LSE in September 2005.His interests focus on ethnographic work, working class entrepreneurship, the sociology of deviance, professional and organized crime, violence, drug markets, and the night-time economy. Dick Hobbs is currently working on a book looking at the sociology of organized crime in the UK. He is also working on a 4 volume edited collection on ethnography, and a collaborative book on the policing and security implications of the 2012 Olympics. Richard Wright is Curators′ Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies [Criminology]. He has been studying active urban street criminals, especially residential burglars, armed robbers, carjackers, and drug dealers for twenty-plus years. He is the author or co-author of five books and seventy scholarly articles and book chapters, including Armed Robbers in Action and Burglars on the Job, which won the 1994-95 Outstanding Scholarship in Crime and Delinquency Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. In addition, he has written widely for the popular press, locally, nationally, and internationally. He has appeared on numerous nationally broadcast TV news programs in the US and Great Britain, and he has been interviewed twice on NPR′s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Icelandic Research Council, National Consortium on Violence Research, and Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Table of Contents PART ONE: LOCATING FIELDWORKThe Fieldwork Tradition - George J McCallPraxical Reasoning and the Logic of Field Research - Gary ShankPART TWO: SITUATING FIELDWORKJelly′s Place - Elijah AndersonAn Ethnographic MemoirYour Place or Mine - Michael SteinThe Geography of Social ResearchPART THREE: SITUATING THE RESPONDENTSFieldwork with the Elite - Mary Dodge and Gilbert GeisInterviewing White-Collar CriminalsEntering the Field - C H Browner and H Mabel PreloranRecruiting Latinos for Ethnographic ResearchPART FOUR: FIELDWORK AS A REFLEXIVE ENTERPRISESelf-Narratives and Ethnographic Fieldwork - Ben Crewe and Shadd Maruna`You Don′t Do Fieldwork, Fieldwork Does You′ - Bob SimpsonBetween Subjectivation and Objectivation in Anthropological FieldworkPART FIVE: THE FIELD OF EMOTIONAural Sex - Christine MattleyThe Politics and Moral Dilemmas of Studying the Social Construction of FantasyThe Case for Dangerous Fieldwork - Bruce JacobsPART FIVE: FIELDWORK AND SEXUALITIESFieldwork on Urban Male Homosexuality in Mexico - Joseph CarrierKnowing Sexuality - Chris Haywood and Mairtin Mac an GhaillEpistemologies of ResearchResearching Sex Work - Teela SandersDynamics, Difficulties and DecisionsPART SEVEN: EMBODIMENT AND IDENTITYFieldwork and the Body - Lee F MonaghanReflections on an Embodied EthnographySport Ethnography - Susan BrownellA Personal AccountHidden Identities and Personal Stories - Jennifer HargreavesInternational Research About Women in SportPART EIGHT: FIELDWORK IN ORGANIZATIONSPolicework and Fieldwork - Nigel FieldingAn Ethnographer′s Tale - Robert G BurgessA Personal View of Educational EthnogrpahyPART NINE: FIELDWORK, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYSoftware and Fieldwork - Susanne FrieseSeeking Science in the Field - Steve FullerLife Beyond the LaboratoryPART TEN: LOCATING FRESH FIELDSPostmodern Fieldwork in Health Research - Nick J FoxFieldwork in Transition - Peter Kirby Manning Review `While aimed at students and new researchers, even an experienced fieldworker can find inspiration in this volume.′ - The Journal of the Royal Anthropoogical Institute′...Peter Manning′s important contribution locates the transitions that have occurred in ethnography at the turn of the 21st century, juxtaposed against studies of organized crime. Nick Fox creatively situates postmodern fieldwork within the context of medical sociology.′ - Qualitative Research Journal ′The book will be particularly valuable for students or those approaching fieldwork for the first time. It provides a useful overview of current issues and debates for those familiar with fieldwork methods.′ - Field Methods Journal Review Quote While aimed at students and new researchers, even an experienced fieldworker can find inspiration in this volume. - The Journal of the Royal Anthropoogical Institute ...Peter Mannings important contribution locates the transitions that have occurred in ethnography at the turn of the 21st century, juxtaposed against studies of organized crime. Nick Fox creatively situates postmodern fieldwork within the context of medical sociology. - Qualitative Research Journal The book will be particularly valuable for students or those approaching fieldwork for the first time. It provides a useful overview of current issues and debates for those familiar with fieldwork methods. - Field Methods Journal Details ISBN0761974458 Short Title SAGE HANDBK OF FIELDWORK Language English ISBN-10 0761974458 ISBN-13 9780761974451 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Year 2006 Edited by Dick Hobbs Author Richard Wright Imprint SAGE Publications Inc Place of Publication Thousand Oaks Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780761974451 UK Release Date 2006-01-05 NZ Release Date 2006-01-05 US Release Date 2006-01-05 Pages 416 Publisher SAGE Publications Inc Publication Date 2006-01-05 DEWEY 300.72 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2005-12-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:127071462;

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