CAROLYN D. SMITH is a writer and editorial consultant specializing in educational materials in the social sciences. She is the author of The Absentee American: Repatriates' Perspectives on America (Praeger, 1991).WILLIAM KORNBLUM is the author of Blue Collar Community (1976) and co-author (with Terry Williams) of Growing Up Poor (1985) and other titles. Kornblum and Smith have collaborated in the writing and development of textbooks on sociology and social problems and are co-editors of The Healing Experience: Readings on the Social Context of Health Care (1994).

• PrefaceIntroduction by William KornblumGaining EntryJelly's Place by Elijah AndersonDoing Research in the Flats by Carol StackExploring the Cocaine Culture by Terry WilliamsIn the Field with Snake Handlers by Peggy Sullivan and Kirk ElifsonBuilding RelationshipsGetting In by Ruth HorowitzEarning a Place in the Hustler's World by Robert P. McNamaraRelations of the Road by Douglas HarperMaintaining ObjectivityDoing Research in Cornerville by William F. WhyteProstitution, Drug Use, and AIDS by Claire SterkOn Studying South Chicago by William KornblumThe Caseworker by Victor AyalaThe Observer's RoleResearching Peasants and Drug Producers by Edmundo MoralesThe Fieldworker and the Surgeon by Charles BoskThe Outsider Phenomenon by Nancy NaplesEpilogueFinding Your Spot by Vernon BoggsIndex

CAROLYN D. SMITH is a writer and editorial consultant specializing in educational materials in the social sciences. She is the author of The Absentee American: Repatriates' Perspectives on America (Praeger, 1991).WILLIAM KORNBLUM is the author of Blue Collar Community (1976) and co-author (with Terry Williams) of Growing Up Poor (1985) and other titles. Kornblum and Smith have collaborated in the writing and development of textbooks on sociology and social problems and are co-editors of The Healing Experience: Readings on the Social Context of Health Care (1994).

• PrefaceIntroduction by William KornblumGaining EntryJelly's Place by Elijah AndersonDoing Research in the Flats by Carol StackExploring the Cocaine Culture by Terry WilliamsIn the Field with Snake Handlers by Peggy Sullivan and Kirk ElifsonBuilding RelationshipsGetting In by Ruth HorowitzEarning a Place in the Hustler's World by Robert P. McNamaraRelations of the Road by Douglas HarperMaintaining ObjectivityDoing Research in Cornerville by William F. WhyteProstitution, Drug Use, and AIDS by Claire SterkOn Studying South Chicago by William KornblumThe Caseworker by Victor AyalaThe Observer's RoleResearching Peasants and Drug Producers by Edmundo MoralesThe Fieldworker and the Surgeon by Charles BoskThe Outsider Phenomenon by Nancy NaplesEpilogueFinding Your Spot by Vernon BoggsIndex

CAROLYN D. SMITH is a writer and editorial consultant specializing in educational materials in the social sciences. She is the author of The Absentee American: Repatriates' Perspectives on America (Praeger, 1991).WILLIAM KORNBLUM is the author of Blue Collar Community (1976) and co-author (with Terry Williams) of Growing Up Poor (1985) and other titles. Kornblum and Smith have collaborated in the writing and development of textbooks on sociology and social problems and are co-editors of The Healing Experience: Readings on the Social Context of Health Care (1994).

• PrefaceIntroduction by William KornblumGaining EntryJelly's Place by Elijah AndersonDoing Research in the Flats by Carol StackExploring the Cocaine Culture by Terry WilliamsIn the Field with Snake Handlers by Peggy Sullivan and Kirk ElifsonBuilding RelationshipsGetting In by Ruth HorowitzEarning a Place in the Hustler's World by Robert P. McNamaraRelations of the Road by Douglas HarperMaintaining ObjectivityDoing Research in Cornerville by William F. WhyteProstitution, Drug Use, and AIDS by Claire SterkOn Studying South Chicago by William KornblumThe Caseworker by Victor AyalaThe Observer's RoleResearching Peasants and Drug Producers by Edmundo MoralesThe Fieldworker and the Surgeon by Charles BoskThe Outsider Phenomenon by Nancy NaplesEpilogueFinding Your Spot by Vernon BoggsIndex