The SAGE Handbook of Fieldwork
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The SAGE Handbook of Fieldwork

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The SAGE Handbook of Fieldwork

About this book

?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 Leicester

Fieldwork 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Part I: Locating Fieldwork
  5. Chapter 1 - The Fieldwork Tradition
  6. Chapter 2 - Praxical Reasoning and the Logic of Field Research
  7. Part II: Situating Fieldwork
  8. Chapter 3 - Jelly's Place: An Ethnographic Memoir
  9. Chapter 4 - Your Place or Mine: The Geography of Social Research
  10. Part III: Situating the Respondents
  11. Chapter 5 - Fieldwork with the Elite: Interviewing White-Collar Criminals
  12. Chapter 6 - Entering the Field: Recruiting Latinos for Ethnographic Research
  13. Part IV: Fieldwork as a Reflexive Enterprise
  14. Chapter 7 - Self-Narratives and Ethnographic Fieldwork
  15. Chapter 8 - 'You Don't Do Fieldwork, Fieldwork Does You': Between Subjectivation and Objectivation in Anthropological Fieldwork
  16. Part V: The Field of Emotion
  17. Chapter 6 - Aural Sex: The Politics and Moral Dilemmas of Studying the Socail Construction of Fantasy
  18. Chapter 10 - The Case for Dangerous Fieldwork
  19. Part VI - Fieldwork and Sexualities
  20. Chapter 11 - Fieldwork on Urban Male Homosexuality in Mexico
  21. Chapter 12 - Knowing Sexuality: Epistemologies of Research
  22. Chapter 13 - Researching Sex Work: Dynamics, Difficulties and Decisions
  23. Part VII: Embodiment and Identity
  24. Chapter 14 - Fieldwork and the Body: Reflections on an Embodied Ethnography
  25. Chapter 15 - Sport Ethnography: A Personal Account
  26. Chapter 16 - Hidden Identities and Personal Stories: International Research about Women in Sport
  27. Part VIII: Fieldwork in Organizations
  28. Chapter 17 - Fieldwork and Policework
  29. Chapter 18 - An Ethnographer's Tale: A Personal View of Educational Ethnography
  30. Part IX: Fieldwork, Science and Technology
  31. Chapter 19 - Software and Fieldwork
  32. Chapter 20 - Seeking Science in the Field: Life Beyond the Laboratory
  33. Part X: Locating Fresh Fields
  34. Chapter 21 - Postmodern Field Relations in Health Research
  35. Chapter 22 - Fieldwork in Transition
  36. Author Biographies
  37. Name Index
  38. Subject Index