Approaches to Fieldwork

VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL IDEAS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE FIELDWORK TRADITION Articulating Theory, Practice and Objectivity in the Ethnography of Education as a Community of Practice - Dennis Beach The Public and Private in C. Wright Mills's Life and Work - John Brewer Village on the Border, Anthropology at the Crossroads: The Significance of a Classic British Ethnography - Anthony Cohen The Methodological Impact of Feminism: A Troubling Issue for Sociology? - Rachel Lara Cohen, Christina Hughes and Richard Lampard The Only Honest Thing: Autoethnography, Reflexivity and Small Crises in Fieldwork - Sara Delamont Searching for Realism, Structure and Agency in Actor Network Theory - Dave Elder-Vass The Sad Demise, Mysterious Disappearance, and Glorious Triumph of Symbolic Internationalism - Gary Fine Towards a Peopled Ethnography: Developing Theory from Group Life - Gary Fine On Fieldwork - Erving Goffman Qualitative Inquiry: Where Are the Ruins? - Maggie MacLure Lifelong Learning to Labour: Apprenticeship, Masculinity and Communities of Practice - Andrew Parker Some Problems of Interpretative Historiography - Paul Rock The Life Histories of W. I. Thomas and Robert E. Park - Paul Baker Institutional Ethnography and Actor-Network Theory: A Framework for Researching the Assessment of Trainee Teachers - Jonathan Tummons The Geography of Disciplinary Amnesia: Eleven Scholars Reflect on the International State of Symbolic Interactionism - Phillip Vannini VOLUME TWO: TECHNIQUE AND TECHNOLOGIES The Importance of Being a 'Lady': Hyper-Femininity and Heterosexuality in the Private, Single-Sex Primary School - Alexandra Allan Charting the Ludodrome: The Mediation of Urban and Simulated Space and Rise of the Flaneur Electronique - Rowland Atkinson and Paul Willis Why Are Social Scientists Still Reluctant to Embrace Email as Data? An Ethnographic Examination of Interactions within Virtual Teams - Yee Wei (Carol) Au and Abigail Marks "Either Side of Delphy Bridge": A Deep Mapping Project Evoking and Engaging the Lives of Older Adults in Rural North Cornwall - Jane Bailey and Iain Biggs From Co-location to Co-presence: Shifts in the Use of Ethnography for the Study of Knowledge - Anne Beaulieu How I Learned What a Crock Was - Howard Becker Photo-Elicitation and the Agricultural Landscape: 'Seeing' and 'Telling' about Farming, Community and Place - Ruth Beilin Back to the Shed: Gendered Visions of Technology and Domesticity - Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish Animating Suspension: Waiting for Mobilities - David Bissell Childern, Mobility and Space: Using GPS and Mobile Phone Technologies in Ethnographic Research - Pia Christensen, Miguel R. Mikkelsen, Thomas Alexander, Sick Nielsen and Henrik Harder Framing Rural Fashion: Observations from Badminton Horse Trials - Alison Goodrum and Kevin Hunt Digital Futures? Sociological Challenges and Opportunities in the Emergent Semantic Web - Susan Halford, Catherine Pope and Mark Weal Knowing the City: Maps, Mobility and Urban Outreach Work - Tom Hall and Robin Smith Using Internet Technologies (Such As Skype) as a Research Medium: A Research Note - Paul Hanna Talking about Pictures: A Case for Photo Elicitation - Douglas Harper Life Stories and Social Careers: Ageing and Social Life in an Ex-Mining Town - Robin Humphrey The Power of Corridors: Connecting Doors, Mobilising Materials, Plotting Openness - Rachel Hurdley Recording Technologies and the Interview in Sociology, 1920-2000 - Raymond Lee Fishmongers in a Global Economy: Craft and Social Relations on a London Market - Dawn Lyon and Les Back An Ethics of Intimacy: Online Dating, Viral-Sociality and Living with HIV - Fadhila Mazanderani Cementing Relations within a Sporting Field: Fell Running in the English Lake District and the Acquisition of Existential Capital - Sarah Nettleton Walking, Sensing, Belonging: Ethno-Mimesis as Performative Praxis - Maggie O'Neill and Phil Hubbard Being There, Teleography and the Wire - Martin Parker An Urban Tour; The Sensory Sociality of Ethnographic Place-Making - Sarah Pink New Avenues for Sociological Inquiry: Evolving Forms of Ethnographic Practice - Laura Robinson and Jeremy Schulz The Postmodern Ethnographic Flaneur and the Study of Hyper-Mediated Everyday Life - Charles Soukup VOLUME THREE: THE PURPOSE, TASK AND AMBITIONS OF FIELDWORK Qualitative Research- Unity and Diversity - Paul Atkinson "The second Banbury Study", Colin Bell Interviewed by Paul Thompson - Paul Thompson Emotion and Place Promotion: Passionate about a Former Coalfield - Katy Bennett Exaggerated Femininity and Tortured Masculinity: Embodying Gender in the Horseracing Industry - Deborah Butler and Nickie Charles (Net)Working Out: Social Capital in Private Health Club - Nick Crossley Going Back to Re-Study Communities: Challenges and Opportunities - Graham Crow The Smell of Sweat and Rum: Teacher Authority in Capoeira Classes - Sara Delamont Four Days in a Strange Place - Locus Congressi Mundane Mobilities, Performance and Spaces of Tourism - Tim Edensor Consumption Styles and the Fluid Complexity of Punk Authenticity - William Force Notes from the Sports Club: Confessional Tales of Two Researchers - Darla Fortune and Heather Mair Ethnography in Evolution: Adapting to the Animal "Other" in Organizations - Lindsay Hamilton and Nick Taylor Anthropology, Class and the 'Big Heads': An Ethnography of Distinctions between 'Rough' and 'Posh' amongst Women Workers in the UK Pottery Industry - Elizabeth Hart Seeking the Analytic Imagination: Reflections on the Process of Interpreting Qualitative Data - Allison James Constructing the Sick Child: The Cultural Politics of Children's Hospitals - Allison James and Penny Curtis If No Means No, Does Yes Mean Yes? Consenting to Research Intimacies - Julia O'Connell Davidson You Are What You Research: A Researcher Partisanship and the Sociology of the Underdog - Karen Lumsden Ethnographic Returning, Qualitative Longitudinal Research and the Reflective Analysis of Social Practice - Karen O'Reilly Close But Not Too Close: Friendship as Method(ology) in Ethnographic Research Encounters - Helen Owten and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson Everyday Risks and Professional Dilemmas: Fieldwork with Alcohol-based (Sporting) Subcultures - Catherine Palmer and Kirrilly Thompson How to Look Good (Nearly) Naked: The Performative Regulation of the Swimmer's Body - Susie Scott Goffman's Interaction Order at the Margins: Stigma, Role, and Normalization in the Outreach Encounter - Robin Smith Uncovering a Hidden "I" in Contemporary Urban Ethnography - Alford Young, Jr VOLUME FOUR: OUTCOMES: STYLE, QUALITY AND IMPACT Introduction: What Is the Empirical? - Lisa Adkins and Celia Lury The Globalization of Qualitative Research - Pertti Alasuutari The Mastersingers: Language and Practice in an Operatic Masterclass - Paul Atkinson Identifying and Comparing Scandinavian Ethnography: Comparisons and Influences - Dennis Beach For Public Sociology - Michael Burawoy Half-Remembrance of Things Past: Critics and Cuts of Old - John Eldridge On the Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto - Alice Goffman On Becker's Studies of Marijuana Use as an Example of Analytic Induction - Martyn Hammersley Local Knowledge and Local Power: Notes on the Ethnography of Local Community Elites - Albert Hunter The New Mobilities Paradigm - Mimi Sheller and John Urry Seeing Differently: Ethnography and Explanatory Power - Beverley Skeggs Novel Ethnographic Representations and the Dilemmas of Judgement - Andrew Sparkes New Methods, Old Problems: A Sceptical View of Innovation in Qualitative Research - Max Travers De-Intellectualizing American Sociology: A History, of Sorts - Stephen Turner Questioning Research with Children: Discrepancy between Theory and Practice? - Emma Uprichard Popularizing Ethnography: Reflections on Writing for Popular Audiences in Magazines and Blogs - Phillip Vannini Scrutinizing the Street: Poverty, Morality, and the pitfalls of Urban Ethnography - Loic Wacquant The Curious Eclipse of Prison Ethnography in the Age of Mass Incarceration - Loic Wacquant Innovation in Qualitative Research Methods: A Narrative Review - Rose Wiles, Graham Crow and Helen Pain