The Interview: From Forman to Postmodern - Couverture rigide

Fontana, Andrea; Prokos, Anastasia H

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 159874108X ISBN 13 : 9781598741087

Editeur : Left Coast Press Inc, 2007

Synopsis

In this concise, student-friendly guide, Fontana and Prokos give a cogent introduction to the history, types, and methods of interviewing in the social sciences.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrea Fontana is Professor of Sociology and department chair at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. He has published articles on aging, leisure, theory, and postmodernism. He is the author of the Last Frontier: the Social Meaning of Growing Old, co-author of Social Problems, Sociologies of Everyday Life, and coeditor of The Existential Self in Society and Postmodernism and Social Inquiry. He is a former president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and a former editor of the journal Symbolic Interaction. Among Fontana's last published essays are a deconstruction of the work of the painter Hieronymus Bosch, a performance/play about Farinelli, the castrato, an ethnographic narrative about land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats, and a performance based on "Six Feet Under." Fontana is currently working on a text, Death in America, for Polity Press.Anastasia H. Prokos is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her Ph.D. from Florida State University. Her primary research area is gender and work, which includes an emphasis on labor market inequalities as they relate to gender, race, and family. Most recently she has published papers on the earnings gap in science and engineering occupations in Gender & Society, and on gender and ethnoracial inequalities in employer-provided health insurance access and coverage in Sociological Inquiry. Prokos is currently expanding her research on health insurance disparities and continues to study gender and labor market inequality.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Left Coast Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 159874108X
• ISBN 13: 9781598741087
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 148
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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