Learning about fieldwork
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Learning about fieldwork
（Studies in qualitative methodology : a research annual, v. 3）
JAI Press, 1992
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The last decade has witnessed a considerable increase in research that could be broadly described as ethnographic, qualitative or a case study among investigators working within such disciplines and areas of study as sociology, criminology and education, as well as sub-fields like industrial relations and the sociology of health and healing. Such work draws on a style of investigation traditionally used by social anthropologists and includes methods such as participant observation, unstructured interviews and documentary evidence. This range of research methods is commonly included under the term field research and qualitative methodology. It is the intention of these research annuals on qualitative research to take up issues and debates in this area that relate to methodology, the relationship between data collection and data analysis, the relationship between theory and method and the implications of qualitative research for social policy and evaluation. Each volume of "Studies in Qualitative Methodology" takes a specific theme relating to qualitative research. Earlier volumes have focussed on the conduct of the qualitative research (Volume 1) and research experience (Volume 2). In all the accounts that have been provided, authors have been encouraged to write in the first person and to focus upon the methodological lessons that can be learned from field research. These themes come together in this volume (Volume 3) which focuses on the learning experience for a group of researchers who have conducted their first major study for a PhD. In this respect, the essays that follow focus on the learning experience in the field and on the process of doing research, and deal with such issues as the biography of the researcher, the role of personal experience, the process of gaining access (through sponsors, gatekeepers and informants), the collection of data through the management of field relations, the analysis of data and the writing process. The authors demonstrate the complexity of conducting fieldwork and the range of interpersonnal skills that need to be used alongside research design, writing and theorizing.
Table of Contents
- Fieldwork, a learning experience, Robert G.Burgess
- strangers or sisters? and exploration of familiarity, strangeness and power in research, Caroline Currer
- a stranger in the house - researching the stepfamily, Christina Hughes
- making sense of the research setting and making the research
- setting make sense, Odette Parry
- researching recruitment - qualitative methods and sex discrimination, David L.Collinson
- nobody said it had to be easy - postgraduate field research in Northern Ireland, Raymond M.Lee
- reflections on fieldwork in stressful situation, Sue Cannon
- the seven year itch - reflections on writing a thesis, Bernadette Casey
- stories about stories - through qualitative research to ethnographic theory, Gron Davies.
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