Ethnographic Research: A Reader presents, in a single volume, ten of the most recently published studies which illustrate the variety of social research which is currently being conducted within the ethnographic tradition. Featuring an editorial introduction and a carefully selected range of Guided Reading Exercises, this most up-to-date collection provides the reader with a solid grounding in the different: *underlying assumptions about ethnographic research *researchers' positions *methods of data collection *claims 'made' *writing voices The collection includes research from a range of different countries (Britain, The USA, Australia, Lebanon and India) and studies from a multitude of disciplines and contexts including work, policing, race and the environment. Ethnographic Research is a course reader for the Open University course D844 Ethnography.
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.
Researching the Social - Stephanie Taylor An Introduction to the Ethnographic Research PART ONE: AT SOCIETY'S MARGINS Respect at Work - Philippe Bourgois `Going Legit' Policing and Public Health - Lisa Maher and David Dixon Law Enforcement and Harm Minimization in a Street-Level Drug Market PART TWO: GENDERED IDENTITIES `Not as Nice as She Was Supposed to Be' - Valerie Hey Schoolgirls' Friendships `One of the Boys' - Claire E Alexander Black Masculinity and the Peer Group PART THREE: WORKPLACE PRACTICES Manufacturing Sexual Subjects - Leslie Salzinger `Harassment', Desire and Discipline on a Maquiladora Shopfloor Distributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit - Edwin Hutchins and Tove Klausen PART FOUR: THE CONSUMPTION OF CULTURAL PRODUCTS Tourists at the Taj - Tim Edensor Walking and Gazing The Global, the Local and the Hybrid - Marwan M Kraidy A Native Ethnography of Globalization PART FIVE: WORKING TO PROVIDE MEDICAL SERVICES Humour as Resistance to Professional Dominance in Community Health Teams - Lesley Griffiths Openness and Specialization - Nicolas Dodier and Agn[gr]es Camus Dealing with Patients in a Hospital Emergency Service
`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
