Ethnographies Revisited: Constructing theory in the field

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ISBN: 9780415452205 | 0415452201
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/18/2009

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This book presents reflexive first-hand accounts from the authors of major book-length ethnographies, recounting how they generated their key ideas in the practice of field research. This volume provides a fresh approach to teaching qualitative research by encouraging students to think creatively and theoretically in the field.

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Introduction
Exercises in Reflexivity: Situating Theory in Practice
Generating Grounded Theory
Learning How to Speak of Sadness
Recollecting Good and Bad Days
Colorful Writing: Conducting and Living with a Tattoo Ethnography
Working with Sensitizing Concepts
Improvising on Sensitizing Concepts
On Developing and Using Concepts in an Icelandic Field Research Setting
Behind the Conceptual Scene of Student Life and Exams
Remembering
Extending Theoretical Frames
Habitus as Topic and Tool: Reflections on Becoming a Prize Fighter
Researching Alcoholics and Alcoholism in American Society
The Development of Leisure Theory in Three Nature Challenge Hobbies
Telling Tales about How Concepts Develop: Stories from Ethnographic Encounters with the Moog Synthesizer
Conceptualizing Community and Social Organization
The Ethnography behind Defenders of the Faith
On Piecing the Puzzle: Researching
Using a Gestalt Perspective to Analyze Children's Worlds
Hookers, Rounders and Desk Clerks: Encountering the Reality of the Hotel Community
Challenging Established Wisdom
Making Theories from Water; or, Finding Stratification in Competitive Swimming
Solving the Mysteries of Shelter Work for the Battered Woman
The Path Taken: Opportunity, Flexibility, and Reflexivity in the Field
Walking the Talk: Doing Gravity's Shadow
Theorizing from Alternative Data: Documentary, Historical, and Autobiographical Sources
Writing Theory in(to) Last Writes
Conceptualizing a Profession in Process: The New Pediatrics Revisited
The History, Myth, and Science of Masada: The Making of an Historical Ethnography
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