Ethnographies Revisited

INTRODUCTION: Exercises in Reflexivity: Situating Theory in Practice, Antony Puddephatt, William Shaffir, and Steven Kleinknecht PART 1: GENERATING GROUNDED THEORY 1. Learning How to Speak of Sadness, David A. Karp 2. Recollecting Good and Bad Days, Kathy Charmaz 3. Colorful Writing: Conducting and Living with a Tattoo Ethnography, Clinton R. Sanders PART 2: WORKING WITH SENSITIZING CONCEPTS 4. Improvising on Sensitizing Concepts, Robert R. Faulkner 5. On Developing and Using Concepts in an Icelandic Field Research Setting, Will C. van den Hoonaard 6. Behind the Conceptual Scene of Student Life and Exams, Daniel and Cheryl Albas 7. Remembering Murray Manor, Jaber F. Gubrium PART 3: EXTENDING THEORETICAL FRAMES 8. Habitus as Topic and Tool: Reflections on Becoming a Prize Fighter, Lo¯c Wacquant 9. Researching Alcoholics and Alcoholism in American Society, Norman K. Denzin 10. The Development of Leisure Theory in Three Nature Challenge Hobbies, Robert A. Stebbins 11. Telling Tales about How Concepts Develop: Stories from Ethnographic Encounters with the Moog Synthesizer, Trevor Pinch PART 4: CONCEPTUALIZING COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION 12. The Ethnography behind Defenders of the Faith, Samuel Heilman 13. On Piecing the Puzzle: Researching Hassidic Jews, William Shaffir 14. Using a Gestalt Perspective to Analyze Childrenâs Worlds, Patricia and Peter Adler 15. Hookers, Rounders and Desk Clerks: Encountering the Reality of the Hotel Community, Robert Prus PART 5: CHALLENGING ESTABLISHED WISDOM 16. Making Theories from Water; or, Finding Stratification in Competitive Swimming, Daniel F. Chambliss 17. Solving the Mysteries of Shelter Work for the Battered Woman, Donileen R. Loseke 18. The Path Taken: Opportunity, Flexibility, and Reflexivity in the Field, Jennifer Dunn 19. Walking the Talk: Doing Gravityâs Shadow, Harry Collins PART 6: THEORIZING FROM ALTERNATIVE DATA: DOCUMENTARY, HISTORICAL, AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES 20. Writing Theory in(to) Last Writes, Laurel Richardson 21. Conceptualizing a Profession in Process: The New Pediatrics Revisited, Dorothy Pawluch 22. The History, Myth, and Science of Masada: The Making of an Historical Ethnography, Nachman Ben-Yehuda