Ethnographic research : a reader / edited by Stephanie Taylor.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : SAGE, 2001.Description: 288pISBN:- 9780761973928 (hbk.) :
- 9780761973935 (pbk.) :
- 0761973931 (pbk)
- 301.01 TAY
- GN300
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Published in association with the Open University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I.At society's margins -- 1.Respect at work: 'Going legit'. Philippe Bourgois -- 2.Policing and public health: law enforcement and harm minimization in a street-level drug market. Lisa Maher and David Dixon -- Part II.Gendered identities -- 3.'Not as nice as she was supposed ot be': schoolgirls' friendships, Valerie Hey -- 4.'One of the boys': black masculinity and the peer group. Claire E. Alexander -- Part II.Workplace practices -- 5.Manufacturing sexual subjecdts: 'Harassment', desire and discipline on a Maquiladora shopfloor. Leslie Salzinger -- 6.Distributed cognition in an airline cockpit. Edwin Hutchins and Tove Klausen -- Part IV.The consumption of cultural products -- 7.Tourists at the Taj Mahal: walking and gazing. Tim Edensor -- 8.The global, the local, and the hybrid: a native ethnography of glocalization. Marwan M. Kraidy -- Part V.Working to provide medical services -- 9.Humour as resistance to professional dominance in community mental health teams. Lesley Griffiths -- 10.Openness and specialisation: dealing with patients in a hospital and emergency service. Nicolas Dodier and Agne`s Camus.
This selection of ten recently published articles illustrates the variety of social research which is currently being conducted within the ethnographic tradition.