'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.
'The Ethnographic Imagination' explores how sociologists use literary and rhetorical conventions to convey their findings, and to persuade their colle...
First published in 1990, The Ethnographic Imagination explores how sociologists use literary and rhetorical conventions to convey their findings and arguments, and to 'persuade' their colleagues and students of the authenticity of their accounts. Looking at selected sociological texts in the light of contemporary social theory, the author analyses how their arguments are constructed and illustrated, and gives many new insights into the literary convention of realism and factual accounts.
First published in 1990, The Ethnographic Imagination explores how sociologists use literary and rhetorical conventions to convey their findi...
Basil Bernstein was one of the most important figures in British sociology, his ideas having inspired a great deal of empirical research and theoretical speculation throughout the world.
Basil Bernstein was one of the most important figures in British sociology, his ideas having inspired a great deal of empirical research and theoretic...
Intends to equip qualitative researchers with the tools necessary to conduct ethnography in the age of email and the internet. This title investigates how digital technologies potentially transform the ways in which we do research.
Intends to equip qualitative researchers with the tools necessary to conduct ethnography in the age of email and the internet. This title investigates...
More and more conditions are now identified as having a genetic component, and controversial new genetic technologies potentially have major consequences for social relations and self-identity. How do family members respond to the information that they have a genetically transmitted disease or condition? How do they communicate (or not communicate) about their shared heritage? How do they decide who to tell and who not to tell within their family? Richly illustrated with the real experiences of individuals and families, Risky Relations is essential reading for anthropologists and...
More and more conditions are now identified as having a genetic component, and controversial new genetic technologies potentially have major conseq...
Richly illustrated with case studies and interviews, this book identifies key themes pervading academic life: the nature of research and research supervision; key social processes and problems; distinct and contrasting sub-cultures of departments and disciplines in universities; mentorship and sponsorship; and apprenticeship and rites of passage for postgraduate students. Anyone developing policy and practice in Higher Education, or wishing to understand their own position within the wider picture will benefit from reading this book.
Richly illustrated with case studies and interviews, this book identifies key themes pervading academic life: the nature of research and research supe...
