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Ethnographic research : a reader / edited by Stephanie Taylor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : SAGE, 2001.Description: 288pISBN:
  • 9780761973928 (hbk.) :
  • 9780761973935 (pbk.) :
  • 0761973931 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.01 TAY
LOC classification:
  • GN300
Contents:
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.
Summary: This selection of ten recently published articles illustrates the variety of social research which is currently being conducted within the ethnographic tradition.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 301.01 TAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 219185

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.

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