Qualitative Sociology as Everyday Life

PART ONE: PUBLIC PLACES Not Even a Day in the Life - Candace West The Nursing Home - Lillian B Rubin Essaying the Personal - Sherryl Kleinman Making Sociological Stories Stick Enough Already! The Pervasiveness of Warnings in Everyday Life - Shulamit Reinharz Earn as You Learn - Clinton R Sanders Connections between Doing Qualitative Work and Living Daily Life Real Life Sexual Harassment - Christine L Williams PART TWO: FAMILY SPACES A Conversation about Parenting - Naomi Gerstel and Robert Zussman On the (Re)Production of Social Class - Susan E Bell Living In, With, and Beyond Elementary School The Personal, the Sociological, and the Intersection of the Two - Lynne Davidman "Are We Alone?" - Marjorie L DeVault Five Minutes - Peter K Manning PART THREE: INTERIOR SPACES The Pleasure of Slowness - David Silverman It's Boring - Peter Conrad Notes on the Meaning of Boredom in Everyday Life Memory and the Practices of Commitment - Barry Schwartz Performing Montana - Norman K Denzin A Personal Passage - Pepper Schwartz Identity Aquisition and Affinity Groups Standing on the Threshold and Tripping - Arlene Kaplan Daniels Awkwardness in Becoming a Field-Worker My Life with Xena and Billy - Joshua Gamson PART FOUR: WORKPLACES Affirmative Action and Me - Sharon M Collins Making Sense and Making a Difference - Derral Cheatwood Murder and College Administration Feeling at Home at Work - Barrie Thorne and Arlie Russell Hochschild Life in Academic Departments On the Nonnegotiable in Sociological Life - Robert Dingwall Is There a Philosopher in the House? - Jonathan D Moreno The Two Faces of Professional Discretion - Allan Schnaiberg A Vision from the Client's Bed Qualitative Sociology and Good Journalism as Demystifiers - Paul M Hirsch Talks between Teachers - Shirah W Hecht and Howard S Becker