Ethnographic Research

Ethnographic Research A Reader

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August 2001 | SAGE Publications Ltd
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Contents
Stephanie Taylor
Researching the Social
An Introduction to the Ethnographic Research

 
 
PART ONE: AT SOCIETY'S MARGINS
Philippe Bourgois
Respect at Work
`Going Legit'

 
Lisa Maher and David Dixon
Policing and Public Health
Law Enforcement and Harm Minimization in a Street-Level Drug Market

 
 
PART TWO: GENDERED IDENTITIES
Valerie Hey
`Not as Nice as She Was Supposed to Be'
Schoolgirls' Friendships

 
Claire E Alexander
`One of the Boys'
Black Masculinity and the Peer Group

 
 
PART THREE: WORKPLACE PRACTICES
Leslie Salzinger
Manufacturing Sexual Subjects
`Harassment', Desire and Discipline on a Maquiladora Shopfloor

 
Edwin Hutchins and Tove Klausen
Distributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit
 
PART FOUR: THE CONSUMPTION OF CULTURAL PRODUCTS
Tim Edensor
Tourists at the Taj
Walking and Gazing

 
Marwan M Kraidy
The Global, the Local and the Hybrid
A Native Ethnography of Globalization

 
 
PART FIVE: WORKING TO PROVIDE MEDICAL SERVICES
Lesley Griffiths
Humour as Resistance to Professional Dominance in Community Health Teams
Nicolas Dodier and Agn[gr]es Camus
Openness and Specialization
Dealing with Patients in a Hospital Emergency Service

 
Independent Customer Reviews

`A clear demonstration of a range of ethnographic research techniques that offer a profound understanding of the subjects of the investigations and will undoubtedly stimulate many considering some form of research to assess carefully the advantages of ethnographic techniques for use in their own work' - Evaluation and Research in Education


For any serious students of research, and in particular, ethnographic research, this is a must read book. It is well written and accessible to all readers.

Dr Bridget Ng'andu
Social Work, Ruskin College Oxford
September 9, 2016

Good overview of all key aspects

Ms Cat Meredith
Faculty of Health, Social Work & Educ, Northumbria University
August 4, 2014
Contributors: 

Stephanie J. A. Taylor

Stephanie Taylor is a senior lecturer in Social Psychology at the Open University, UK. Her research investigates a complex gendered subject and contemporary identification, including identities of creativity and work. She has also written extensively on discourse analysis and qualitative research. Her books include What Is Discourse Analysis? (Bloomsbury, 2013), Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work, with Karen Littleton (Ashgate, 2012), and Narratives of Identity and Place (Routledge, 2010). She is a coeditor, with Susan Luckman, of the 2018 Palgrave Macmillan collection The New Normal of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment. She is originally from New Zealand and now lives in the UK.