Shadowing: And Other Techniques for Doing Fieldwork in Modern Societies - Couverture souple

Czarniawska, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8763002159 ISBN 13 : 9788763002158

Editeur : Copenhagen Business School Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book offers an array of techniques to study people on the move, and the book is addressed to all social scientists interested in fieldwork as a way of grasping phenomena typical of late modernity. The book's starting point is that present times require different metaphors than static "cultures", "organisations" or even "societies". It is time to start constructing a mobile ethnology that is knowledge about people, objects, and ideas that circulate globally. The text offers suggestions concerning the ways such construction may take.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Truly innovative books on ethnographic methods are very rare. Barbara Czarniawska's achievement is to have produced a book, based on her wide research experience, which is innovative, important and engaging. Shadowing will be essential reading for students and researchers for many years to come. --David Silverman, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths' College and Management Department, King's College (both University of London)

Barbara Czarniawska provides an engrossing and tremendously thoughtful discussion of fieldwork methods for studying contemporary societies. This is a fascinating and challenging book that gives no easy answers, but stimulates reflection on field research processes and practices. I recommend it to anyone interested in what field researchers in the social sciences do, and especially to both beginning and experienced practitioners who are using these methods. --Joan Acker, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Copenhagen Business School Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8763002159
• ISBN 13: 9788763002158
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 134
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• Personne responsable: non disponible