Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Beskrivning

Few social researchers study elites because elites, by their nature, are very difficult to access. The contributors to this volume provide valuable insights on how researchers can successfully penetrate elite settings. As the authors reflect on their experiences, they provide constructive advice as well as cautionary tales about how they learned to maneuver and become accepted in a world that is often closed to them. This book's coverage includes three broad research domains: business elites, professional elites, and community and political elites. Although the studies focus on qualitative methodology, even researchers who emphasize more quantitative methods will benefit from this volume's thoughtful observations on how researchers gather data, construct interview strategies, write about their subjects, and experience the research process. A wide range of researchers in organizational studies, sociology, political science, and many other fields will find this volume to be an important guide to the many subtle and elusive features of conducting successful research with these groups.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-09-21
Mått:143 x 217 x 14 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SAGE Focus Editions
Antal sidor:210
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9780803970373

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Rosanna Hertz is the 1919 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Oxford Press, 2008). She is also the author or co-author of five edited collections which focus on the use of qualitative methods including Open to Disruption: Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology (Vanderbilt University, 2015) with Anita Ilta Garey and Margaret K. Nelson.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction - Rosanna Hertz and Jonathan B ImberPART ONE: BUSINESS ELITESInterviewing Important People in Big Companies - Robert J ThomasReaching Corporate Executives - Michael UseemFielding Hot Topics in Cool Settings - Peter Cleary Yeager and Kathy E KramThe Study of Corporate EthicsUsing Electronic Media to Support Fieldwork in a Corporate Setting - John P Workman JrTales from the Field - Paul M HirschLearning from Researchers′ AccountsPART TWO: PROFESSIONAL ELITESStopping the Spin and Becoming a Prop - Joshua GamsonFieldwork on Hollywood ElitesReflections on Fieldwork in a Complex Organization - Jennifer L PierceLawyers, Ethnographic Authority, and Lethal WeaponsNegotiating Status - Alan AldridgeSocial Scientists and Anglican ClergyHow I Learned What a Crock Was - Howard S BeckerPART THREE: COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL ELITES`Surely You′re Not in This Just to Be Helpful′ - Susan A OstranderAccess, Rapport, and Interviews in Three Studies of ElitesLocal Knowledge and Local Power - Albert HunterNotes on the Ethnography of Local Community ElitesResearch as a Communication Act - Hanna HerzogA Study on Israeli Women in Local Politics Exploding Anthropology′s Canon in the World of the Bomb - Hugh GustersonEthnographic Writing on Militarism