Katarina Jacobsson is Professor of Social Work at Lund University in Sweden. Jaber F. Gubrium is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Missouri in the US.

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• Part One: Capturing Professional RelevanceShadowing Care Workers When They’re “Doing Nothing” ~ Doris LydahlTwo Worlds of Professional Relevance in a Small Village ~ Christal AvendalCapturing the Organization of Emotions in Child Welfare Decision-Making ~ Tea Torbenfeldt BengtssonPart Two: Grasping Empirical ComplexitySensitizing Concepts in Studies of Homelessness and Disability ~ Nanna Mik-MeyerGrasping the Social Life of Documents in Human Service Practice ~ Emilie Morwenna WhitakerDebating Dementia Care Logics ~ Cintia Engel, Janaina Aredes & Annette Leibing Part Three: Challenges Of Multi-SitednessSocial Worlds of Person-Centered, Multi-Sited Ethnography ~ Aleksandra Bartoszko “Facting” in a Case of Concealed Pregnancy ~ Lucy SheehanEthnographic Challenges of Fragmented Human Services ~ Tarja PösöPART Four: Noticings From Ethnographic DistanceEthnographic Discovery after Fieldwork on Troubled Youth ~ Malin Ǻkerström & David WästerforsLooking Beyond the Police-as-Control Narrative ~ David SausdalEmbracing Lessons from Ethnography in Non-Western Prison ~ Andrew M. Jefferson