{"product_id":"doing-ethnography-studying-everyday-life-9781551302454","title":"Doing Ethnography: Studying Everyday Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoing Ethnography\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential text for courses in ethnography, research methods (qualitative emphasis), applied sociology, and related subjects across Canada. This unique volume first considers the merits of qualitative research, profiles interviewing strategies, and discusses the relationships to respondents and how to write about social life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second portion of \u003cem\u003eDoing Ethnography\u003c\/em\u003e contains three sections: constructing perspectives, constructing identities, as well as doing and relating. Case studies and original research are featured throughout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe editors, Dorothy Pawluch, William Shaffir, and Charlene Miall, emphasize the importance of studying social interaction. \"\"In truth, any question about society, big or small, is ultimately about people interacting with each other. Whether the issue is changing gender relationships, corporate deeds and misdeeds, class structures, or the school performance of children from cultural minorities, it all comes down to one thing: people doing things together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Canadian content is particularly interesting and important with regard to this book. The examples shown will relate easily to the life experiences of many Canadian students.\"\" - Tanya Cassidy, University of Windsor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction to Doing Ethnography: Studying Everyday Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1: Studying Human Knowing and Acting: The Interactionist Quest for Authenticity - Robert Prus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1: Doing Ethnography: Challenges And Strategies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1A: Considering the Merits of Qualitative Research\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2: Interpretive Practices and the Role of Qualitative Methods in Informing Large-Scale Survey Research - Charlene Miall and Karen March\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3: The Charms and Challenges of an Academic Qualitative Researcher Doing Participatory Action Research (PAR) - Karen Szala-Meneok and Lynne Lohfeld\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1B: Interviewing Strategies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4: Self-Presentation and Social Poetics: Active Interview Tactics in Research with Public Figures - Andrew D. Hathaway and Michael F. Atkinson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5: Conducting Field Research with Young Offenders Convicted of Murder and Manslaughter: Gaining Access, Risks, and \"\"Truth Status\"\" - Mark Totten and Katharine Kelly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6: Complex Needs and Complex Issues: How Responding to Ethnographic Fieldwork Contingencies Shaped a Study of Homelessness - Anne Wright\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1C: Relating to Respondents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7: \"\"I'm Looking Forward to Hearing What You Found Out\"\": Reflections on a Critical Perspective and Some of Its Consequences - Gillian Ranson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8: Conducting Qualitative Research on Emotionally Upsetting Topics: Homicide and Those Left Behind - J. Scott Kenney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1D: Writing about Social Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9: The Question of \"\"Whose Truth\"\"?: The Privileging of Participant and Researcher Voices in Qualitative Research - Linda L. Snyder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10: Quote, Unquote: From Transcript to Text in Ethnographic Research - Katherine Bischoping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2: Ethnography In Process: Case Studies Of Everyday Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2A: Constructing Perspectives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11: The Process of Caring: Nurses and Genetic Termination - Catherine Chiappetta-Swanson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12: Perceptions of Oncology Professionals' Work: Implications for Informal Carers, Implications for Health Systems - Christina Sinding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13: Gendered Experiences of HIV and Complementary Therapy Use - Dorothy Pawluch, Roy Cain, and James Gillett\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14: Conflict and Abuse in Dating Relationships: Young Adult Women in University React to a Film Clip - Kristin L. Newman, Carmen Poulin, Bette L. Brazier, and Andrea L. Cashmore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15: Ethnographic Insights into the Hacker Subculture - Steven Kleinknecht\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2B: Constructing Identities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16: Smoking and Self: Tobacco Use Effects on Young Women's Constructions of Self and Others - Florence June Kellner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17: Perceptions of Motherhood through the Lens of Adoption - Karen March\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18: \"\"This Is Who I Really Am\"\": Obese Women's Conceptions of Self Following Weight Loss Surgery - Leanne Joanisse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 19: Coping with Electoral Defeat: A Study of Involuntary Role Exit - William Shaffir and Steven Kleinknecht\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 20: Avoiding the Other: A Technique of Stigma Management among People Who Use Alternative Therapies - Jacqueline Low\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2C: Doing and Relating\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 21: Negotiated Order and Strategic Inaction in Television Coverage of the Olympics - Josh Greenberg, Graham Knight, Margaret MacNeill, and Peter Donnelly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 22: Advancing in the Amateur Chess World - Antony J. Puddephatt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 23: Singing Out and Making Community: Gay Men and Choral Singing - Roy Cain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 24: For Better and for Worse: Psychological Demands and Structural Impacts on Gay Servicewomen in the Military and Their Long-Term Partners - Lynne Gouliquer and Carmen Poulin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors' Biographies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCopyright Acknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Canadian Scholars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359602639191,"sku":"9781551302454","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781551302454.jpg?v=1754125145","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/doing-ethnography-studying-everyday-life-9781551302454","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}