Observation Methods

VOLUME ONE: PART ONE: OBSERVATION: PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND ART The Bucket and the Searchlight - Karl Popper Two Theories of Knowledge Revolutions as Changes of World View - Thomas Kuhn Techniques of the Observer - Jonathan Crary Interpretation - William Thompson Observer Effects Seeing and Knowing - Michel Foucault Rules for the Observation of Social Facts - Emile Durkheim Weber's Verstehen and the History of Qualitative Research - Jennifer Platt The Missing Link The Definitions of Sociology and of Social Action - Max Weber Social Relationships between Contemporaries and Indirect Social Observation - Alfred Sch tz Some Basic Problems of Interpretive Sociology - Alfred Sch tz Unexpected Interactions - Matthias Gross Georg Simmel and the Observation of Nature Scopic Regimes of Modernity - Martin Jay Foucault's Art of Seeing - John Rajchman PART TWO: REFLECTIONS ON THE PRACTICE OF OBSERVATION Excerpt from The Observation of Savage Peoples - Joseph-Marie baron de Gerando Roles in Sociological Field Observation - Raymond Gold Performing Ethnography and Ethnography of Performance - Paul Atkinson Accounts, Interviews and Observations - Robert Dingwall Observational Fieldwork - Robert Emerson Everett C Hughes and the Development of Fieldwork in Sociology - Jean-Michel Chapoulie The Chicago School and First-Hand Data - Jennifer Platt Mass Observation - Penny Summerfield Social Research or Social Movement? VOLUME TWO: A Problem of Sociological Praxis - Michal Bodemann The Case for Interventive Observation in Fieldwork Benefits of 'Observer Effects' - Torin Monahan and Jill Fisher Lessons from the Field Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography? - Judith Stacey On Tricky Ground - Linda Tuhiwai Smith Researching the Native in the Age of Uncertainty Ethnographic Showcases, 1870-1930 - Raymond Corbey Why Look at Animals - John Berger PART ONE: ETHICS, RISK AND OBSERVATION Ethical Challenges in Participant Observation - Jun Li A Reflection on Ethnographic Fieldwork The Risk of 'Going Observationalist' - Robert Labaree Negotiating the Hidden Dilemmas of Being an Insider Participant Observer Informed Consent, Anticipatory Regulation and Ethnographic Practice - Elizabeth Murphy and Robert Dingwall The Art and Politics of Covert Research - David Calvey Doing 'Situated Ethics in the Field Covert Participant Observation - Richard Hilbert On Its Nature and Practice Between Overt and Covert Research - Peter Lugosi Concealment and Disclosure in an Ethnographic Study of a Commercial Hospitality Ethical Covert Research - Paul Spicker Lone Researchers at Sea - Helen Sampson and Michelle Thomas Gender Risk and Responsibility When Is Disguise Justified? Alternatives to Covert Participation Observation - Martin Bulmer A Comment on Disguised Observation in Sociology - Kai Erikson New Jersey: Transaction - Laud Humphreys Controversies Surrounding Laud Humphreys' Tearoom Trade - Michael Lenza An Unsettling Example of Politics and Power in Methodological Critiques Working in Hostile Environments - Nigel Fielding Dangerous Fieldwork Re-Examined - Pamela Nilan The Question of Researcher Subject Position Doing Participant Observation in a Psychiatric Hospital - Christine Oeye, Anne Karen Bjelland and Aina Skorpen Research Ethics Resumed The Researcher as Hooligan - Geoff Pearson Where 'Participant' Observation Means Breaking the Law Ethnographic Intimacy - Maria Perez-y-Perez and Tony Stanley Thinking through the Ethics of Social Research in Sex Worlds VOLUME THREE PART ONE : PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION The Con Man as a Model Organism - Michael Pettit The Methodological Roots of Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical Self A Note on Participant Observation - Colin Bell A Contribution to the Theory of Participant Observation - Jiri Kolaja Problems of Inference and Proof in Participant Observation - Howard Becker Part of the Action or 'Going Native'? Learning to Cope with the 'Politics of Integration' - Duncan Fuller The Participant Observer and 'Over-Rapport' - S. M. Miller Role Boundaries and Paying Back - Jacqueline Wade 'Switching Hats' in Participant Observation Deep Play - Clifford Geertz Notes on the Balinese Cockfight Participant Observation as a Tool for Understanding the Field of Safety and Security - Frederic Diaz Participant Observation in Prison - James Jacobs A Spy, a Shill, a Go-Between or a Sociologist - Susan Murray Unveiling the 'Observer' in Participant Observer PART TWO: INTERPRETATION AND PRESENTATION OF OBSERVATIONAL DATA On Writing Fieldnotes - Nicholas Wolfinger Collection Strategies and Background Expectancies Thick Description - Clifford Geertz Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture Thinking through Fieldwork - Judith Okely On the Analysis of Observational Data - M. Bloor A Discussion of the Worth and Uses of Inductive Techniques and Respondent Validation The Presentation of Everyday Life - Kenneth Stoddart Some Textual Strategies for 'Adequate Ethnography' Representation, Legitimation and Auto-Ethnography - Nicholas Holt An Auto-Ethnographic Writing Story PART THREE: OBSERVATIONAL SCREENS: PHOTOGRAPHY, CCTV AND INTERNET Looking Emotionally - Monica Moreno Figueroa Photography, Racism and Intimacy in Research Using CCTV to Study Visitors in the New Art Gallery, Walsall, U.K. - Ela Beaumont Ethnographic Approaches to the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication - Angela Garcia et al Ethnography, the Internet, Youth Culture - Brian Wilson Strategies for Examining Social Resistance and 'Online-Offline' Relationships VOLUME FOUR: PART ONE: OBSERVING WORKPLACES AND WORKERS Social Access in the Workplace - Simon Carmel Are Ethnographers Gossips The Sweat-Shop in Summer - Annie Marion Maclean On Doctor Watching - Sandra Danziger Fieldwork in Medical Settings Two Weeks in Department Stores - Annie Marion Maclean An Observational Study of Shoplifting - Abigail Buckle and David Farrington Glimpses at the Mind of a Waitress - Amy Tanner Extracts from Living the Kitchen Life and Appendix: Ethnography in the Kitchen - Gary Alan Fine PART TWO: STUDYING UP: OBSERVING THE UNOBSERVED Up the Anthropologist - Laura Nader Perspectives Gained from Studying up Ethnography in/of the World System - George Marcus The Emergence of Multisited Ethnography Studying up Revisited - Hugh Gusterson After Method? Ethnography in the Knowledge Economy - David Mills and Richard Ratcliffe Fast Capitalism - Douglas Holmes and George Marcus Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst Anthropology Goes to Wall Street - Karen Ho Researching Police Deviance - Maurice Punch A Personal Encounter with the Limitations and Liabilities of Fieldwork Potential Sources of Observer Bias in Police Observational Data - Richard Spano Observing the Observers - Thomas Kemple and Laura Huey Researching Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance on 'Skid Row' Whistle-Blower Disclosures and Management Retaliation - Joyce Rothschild and Terence Miethe The Battle to Control Information about Organizational Corruption