Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803936451 ISBN 13 : 9780803936454

Editeur : SAGE Publications, Inc, 1991

Synopsis

How do you gain entry into a research setting? What tricks are there to learning the rules of the community without alienating the people you came to study? How are good relations maintained with informants? What happens after you leave the field? In Experiencing Fieldwork top ethnographers address these and other questions, bring fieldwork alive for the reader and provide invaluable advice for those entering the field.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Faculty Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. He received his Ph.D. in 1964 from the University of Minnesota. Author of 30 books and monographs as well as over 150 articles and chapters in several areas of social science, his most recent works include: New Directions in the Theory and Research of Serious Leisure (Edwin Mellen, 2001), Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences (Sage, 2001), and The Organizational Basis of Leisure Participation: A Motivational Exploration (Venture Publications, 2002). Between Work and Leisure (Transaction Publishers) appeared in 2004 and Challenging Mountain Nature (Detselig), a study of three mountain hobbyist sports, will be published in fall, 2005. He is presently writing for Indiana University Press (with David Horton Smith and Michael Dover) A Dictionary of Nonprofit Terms and Concepts. Stebbins was elected Fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences in 1996 and, in 1999, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803936451
• ISBN 13: 9780803936454
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Shaffir William B., Stebbins Robert A.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible