Ethnographies revisited constructing theory in the field / edited by Antony J. Puddephatt, William Shaffir and Steven W. Kleinknecht.

Other author Puddephatt, Antony J.
Other author Shaffir, William.
Other author Kleinknecht, Steven W. (Steven William)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxix, 356 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents Introduction : exercises in reflexivity : situating theory in practice / Antony Puddephatt, William Shaffir and Steven Kleinknecht -- Learning how to speak of sadness / David A. Karp -- Recollecting good and bad days / Kathy Charmaz -- Colorful writing : conducting and living with a tattoo ethnography / Clinton R. Sanders -- Improvising on sensitizing concepts / Robert R. Faulkner -- On developing and using concepts in an Icelandic field-research setting / Will C. Van Den Hoonaard -- Behind the conceptual scene of Student life and exams / Daniel Albas and Cheryl Albas -- How Murray Manor became an ethnography / Jaber F. Gubrium -- Habitus as topic and tool : reflections on becoming a prizefighter / Loïc Wacquant -- Researching alcoholics and alcoholism in American society / Norman K. Denzin -- The development of leisure theory in three nature-challenge hobbies / Robert A. Stebbins -- Telling tales about how concepts develop : stories from ethnographic encounters with the Moog synthesizer / Trevor Pinch -- The ethnography behind Defenders of the faith / Samuel Heilman -- On piecing the puzzle : researching Hassidic Jews / William Shaffir -- Using a gestalt perspective to analyze children's worlds / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler -- Hookers, rounders and desk clerks : encountering the reality of the hotel community / Robert Prus -- Making theories from water; or, finding stratification in competitive swimming / Daniel F. Chambliss -- Solving the mysteries of shelter work for the battered woman / Donileen R. Loseke -- The path taken : opportunity, flexibility, and reflexivity in the field / Jennifer L. Dunn -- Walking the talk : doing Gravity's shadow / Harry Collins -- Writing theory in(to) Last writes / Laurel Richardson -- Conceptualizing a profession in process : The new pediatrics revisited / Dorothy Pawluch -- The history, myth, and science of Masada : the making of an historical ethnography / Nachman Ben-Yehuda.
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