Sociologists Backstage : Answers to 10 Questions About What They Do

ISBN-13: 9780415870931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 254 str.

Sarah Fenstermaker

Opis

Published social science rarely gives real attention to the actual doing of research, making the process appear magical, or at least self-evident and simple. This book is intended to right the balance by illuminating the craft and the choices made as the research process unfolds for the sociologist. The metaphorical image of going "backstage" speaks to the reader's experience with each of the seventeen interviews, which illuminate the choices and constraints of researchers as well as unanticipated developments, good and bad. The volume represents a range of interests, themes, research philosophies and approaches from a diverse group of contributors. Particularly suited for advanced undergraduate and graduate research methods students, the volume addresses virtually all of the most vexing methods questions through accessible and compelling first-hand descriptions of sociological research. The volume is an invaluable addition to the library of all social science researchers. From the Foreword by Howard Becker: "The stories in Sociologists Backstage tell how the contributors, who differ in so many ways, dealt with the situations they found themselves in as they did their research, and how who they were and what they had become in their lives intersected with those situations. The stories will fascinate you, and give you a lot to think about as you go ahead with your own research adventure."

Spis treści

Section 1: Urban Sociology in the Post-Civil Rights Era  1. Mary Pattillo  2. Scott Brooks  3. Alford Young  4. Mitchell Duneier  Section 2: Global Ethnography and the Study of Transnational Labor Migrations  5. Milliann Kang  6. Hung Cam Thai  7. Nazli Kibria  8. Rhacael Parrenas  Section 3: Studying Gender, Crime and Violence in the Era of Mass Incarceration  9. Meda Chesney-Lind  10. Victor Rios  11. Mercer Sullivan  12. Valerie Jenness  Section 4: The Researcher As…  13. Karyn Lacy  14. France Winddance Twine  15. Denise Segura  16. Christine Williams  17. Verta Taylor and Leila Rupp