The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality

ISBN-13: 9780415615570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 208 str.

Paul Atkinson

Opis

'The Ethnographic Imagination' explores how sociologists use literary and rhetorical conventions to convey their findings, and to persuade their colleagues and students of the legitimacy of of their accounts. The author analyses how arguments are constructed, and gives insight into the literary convention of realism and factual accounts.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: ethnography as method and as genre  2.Ethnography and the poetics of sociology  3. Ethnography and the poetics of authoritative accounts  4. Ethnography and the representation of reality  5. Voices in the text: exemplars and the poetics of ethnography  6. Narrative and the represnetation of social action  7. Character and type: the textual construction of actors  8. Difference, distance, and irony  9. Conclusion: textual possibilities

O autorze

Atkinson, Paul