- Paperback: 268 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (2 Dec 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198258410
- ISBN-13: 978-0198258414
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,016,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book has two central aims. First, to demonstrate the importance of qualitative research through an examination of the type of data that it is capable of producing. Second, to do so using first-hand research accounts of ethnographic work. Toward these ends, the contributors cover a variety of topics: drug dealing; football hooliganism; entrepreneurial crime; the culture of policing; policing and the miners' strike; protest at Greenham Common; the politics of organizational change and race and sexuality in the field-work process. In reflecting upon personal experiences of field-work, together with the research strategies employed, the authors illustrate their arguments in both a detailed and accessible manner. The themes they discuss include the ethics and politics of field-work; reflexivity and data production; feminist field-work; the publication and production of studies, and an examination of the contrasting cultures of academia and what is normally termed the `field', where knowledges are authenticated according to different rules and power relations. As a result, Interpreting the Field, will have wide appeal for those who wish to understand the dynamics, advantages, and problems associated with ethnographic work: for example, undergraduates and post-graduates undertaking their own research. It will also be of interest to methodologists and those working in the areas of crime, deviance, and organizational studies, as well as general readers of social science literature.
About the Author
Dick Hobbs is a well known sociologist and author of Doing the Business (Clarendon Paperbacks, March 1993), which won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the vest first sociology book by a new author when it was first published in 1988. Tim May previously taught at the University of Durham and has been a researcher at Plymouth Polytechnic and the Centre for Criminological Research, Oxford.
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