Generating Data

Bruce Curtis teaches sociology. His research interests include how policies, technologies and local and international markets impact organizations and methodology.Cate Curtis teaches social psychology. Her research interests include the construction and conceptualization of “risk” and “resilience,” particularly as they pertain to young women, and social factors implicated in “anti-social behavior.”

• VOLUME ONE: NATURALISTIC RESEARCH – FIELDWORK, PARTICIPANT-OBSERVATION, ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCHHow I Learned What a Crock Was - Howard S. BeckerDeep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight - Clifford GeertzOn Being Sane in Insane Places - D.L. RosenhanAmong the Thugs: The ‘New Ethnographies’ of Football Supporting Subcultures - John HughsonHabitus as Topic and Tool: Reflections on Becoming a Prizefighter - Loïc Wacquant‘Hidden Ethnography’: Crossing Emotional Borders in Qualitative Accounts of Young People’s Lives - Shane BlackmanInto the Dark Heart of Ethnography: The Lived Ethics and Inequality of Intimate Field Relationships - Katherine IrwinLumpen Abuse: The Human Cost of Righteous Neoliberalism - Philippe BourgoisFraming Photographic Ethnography: A Case Study - Douglas HarperMultimodal Ethnography - Bella Dicks, Bambo Soyinka and Amanda CoffeyFrom Policy to Prisoners to People: A ‘Soft Mixed Methods’ Approach to Studying Transgender Prisoners - Valerie JennessThe Present of Things Past: Ethnography and Career Studies - John Van ManeenEthnographic Case Study (ECS): Abductive Modeling of Ethnography and Improving the Relevance in Business Marketing Research - Luca Massimiliano ViscontiVOLUME TWO: INTERROGATIVE RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHPart One: Interrogative Research – Grounded Theory, Focus Group, Survey ResearchRole Relationships and Conceptions of Neutrality in Interviewing - Lewis Anthony DexterIntroduction: Elite and Specialized Interviewing - Lewis Anthony DexterMaori and Cross-Cultural Research: Criticality, Ethicality and Generosity - Tracey McIntoshAre There Two Methods of Grounded Theory? Demystifying the Methodological Debate - Cheri Ann HernandezChoosing a Methodological Path: Reflections on the Constructivist Turn - Jenna Breckenridge, Derek Jones, Ian Elliott and Margaret NicolRemodeling Grounded Theory - Barney Glaser and Judith HoltonCrafting and Conducting Intensive Interviews - Kathy CharmazThe Focussed Interview and Focus Groups: Continuities and Discontinuities - Robert K. MertonFocus Groups - David L. MorganFocus Group Research: Retrospect and Prospect - George Kamberelis and Greg DimitriadisThirty Years of Survey Methodology/Thirty Years of BMS - Edith de LeeuwInterviews, Surveys, and the Problem of Ecological Validity - Aaron V. CicourelOverreporting of Prayer in Muslim Countries: Testing the Veracity of Self-Reported Religious Practice in the Muslim World - Philip BrennerPart Two: Experimental Research – Group Research, Remote InstrumentationBehavioral Study of Obedience - Stanley MilgramOn the Ethics of Intervention in Human Psychological Research: With Special Reference to the Stanford Prison Experiment - Philip ZimbardoThe Effect of Video Game Violence on Physiological Desensitization to Real-Life Violence - Nicholas L. Carnagey, Craig A. Anderson and Brad J. BushmanCyberball: A Program for Use in Research on Interpersonal Ostracism and Acceptance - Kipling D. Williams and Blair JarvisConsequences of Participating in a Longitudinal Study of Marriage - Joseph Veroff, Shirley Hatchett and Elizabeth DouvanExperimentation and Social Interventions: A Forgotten but Important History - Ann OakleyThe Growth and Development of Experimental Research in Political Science - James N. Druckman, Donald P. Green, James H. Kulinski and Arthur LupiaThe Lost Letter Technique: A Tool of Social Research - Stanley Milgram, Leon Mann and Susan HarterYou’ve Got Mail: Using E-Mail to Examine the Effect of Prejudiced Attitudes on Discrimination against Arabs - Brad J. Bushman and Angelica M. BonacciA Focus Theory of Normative Conduct: Recycling the Concept of Norms to Reduce Littering in Public Places - Robert B. Cialdini, Raymond R. Reno and Carl A. KallgrenHow Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Js: Implicit Egotism and Interpersonal Attraction - John T. Jones, Brett W. Pelham, Mauricio Carvallo and Matthew C. MirenbergColliding Human–Animal Trajectories (Road Kill!) on a Tasmanian Journey - Claudia BellVOLUME THREE: MATERIAL RESEARCH AND DE-CENTRED RESEARCHPart One: Material Research – Artefacts, Trace Analysis, Visual Analysis and Content AnalysisPhysical Traces: Erosion and Accretion - Eugene Webb, Donald T. Campbell, Richard D. Schwartz and Lee SechrestUnobtrusive Measures in Organizational Theory: A Reminder - Eugene Webb and Karl E. WeickUnobtrusive Measurement: Using Police Information for Forensic Research - Laurence J. Alison, Brent Snook and Kristin L. SteinSmile Intensity in Photographs Predicts Longevity - Ernest L. Abel and Michael L. KrugerThe Social Archeology of a Juvenile Facility: Unobtrusive Methods in the Study of Institutional Cultures - John M. Klofas and Charles R. CutshallVisual Sociology Reframed: An Analytical Synthesis and Discussion of Visual Methods in Social and Cultural Research - Luc PauwelsContent Analysis – A Methodological Primer for Gender Research - Kimberly A. NeuendorfTypes of Humor in Television and Magazine Advertising - Codruta Catanescu and Gail TomHoes and Hashtags: Constructions of Gender and Race in Trending Topics - Jodi L. Rightler-McDaniels and Elizabeth M. HendricksonPart Two: De-centred Research – Semiotics, Discourse Analysis and PsychoanalysisMyth Today - Roland BarthesLetter to a Japanese Friend. (Prof. Izutsu) - Jacques DerridaThe Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in the Psychoanalytical Experience - Jacques LacanDecoding Advertisements: Conclusions - Judith WilliamsonUnfreezing the Truth: Knowledge and Denial in Climate Change Imagery - Judith WilliamsonMediated Intimacy and Postfeminism: A Discourse Analytic Examination of Sex and Relationships Advice in a Women’s Magazine - Rosalind GillThe Codes of the Dead: The Semiotics of Funeral Work - Stephen R. BarleyThe Narcissism of Minor Differences: The Status Anxiety and Disciplinary Intolerance between Sociology and Psychoanalysis - Siamak MovahediPolitics and the Impossible: Beyond Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction - Glyn DalyNever Employable Enough: The (Im)Possibility of Satisfying the Boss’s Desire - Colin CreminThe Couch and the Chador - Siamak Movahedi and Gohar HomayounpourVOLUME FOUR: BIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AND SECONDARY RESEARCHPart One: Biographic Research – Auto/Biographic Writing, Narrative Analysis, and Auto-EthnographyNomothetic and Idiographic Uses - Gordon Allport‘Entering the Blogosphere’: Some Strategies for Using Blogs in Social Research - Nicholas HookwayNarrative Configuration in Qualitative Analysis - Donald E. PolkinghornePositioning between Structure and Performance - Michael BambergBlank Check for Biography? Openness and Ingenuity in the Management of the ‘Who-Am-I-Question’ and What Life Stories Actually May Not Be Good For - Michael BambergNarrating Oneself: Reflections on the Use of Solicited Diaries with Diary Interviews - Charlotte KentenAnother String to Our Bow: Participant Writing as Research Method - Vivienne ElizabethAutoethnography: An Overview - Carolyn Ellis, Tony E. Adams and Arthur P. BochnerAnalytic Autoethnography - Leon AndersonAn Autoethnography on Learning about Autoethnography - Sarah WallBecoming Smaller: Autobiographical Spaces of Weight Loss - Robyn LonghurstPart Two: Secondary Research – Secondary Analysis, Documentary Research, Meta-AnalysisSecondary Analysis of Qualitative Data: An Overview - Janet HeatonConceptualizing Young People′s Strategies of Resistance to Offending as ‘Active Resilience’ - Cathy MurrayEvidence and Proof in Documentary Research: 1: Some Specific Problems of Documentary Research - Jennifer PlattEvidence and Proof in Documentary Research: 2: Some Shared Problems of Documentary Research - Jennifer PlattAnalysing Documentary Realities - Paul Atkinson and Amanda CoffeyDocumenting the UK “Black Fish Scandal” as a Case Study of Criminal Entrepreneurship - Robert SmithDeveloping Qualitative Research Streams Relating to Illegal Rural Enterprise: Reflections on Researching Qualitatively at the Margins of Entrepreneurship Research - Robert Smith and Gerard McElweeMeta-Analysis: Recent Developments in Quantitative Methods for Literature Reviews - R. Rosenthal and M.R. Di MatteoMeta-Analysis in Criminal Justice and Criminology: What It Is, When It′s Useful, and What to Watch Out For - Travis C. PrattHow Can Systematic Reviews Incorporate Qualitative Research? A Critical Perspective - Mary Dixon-Woods, Sheila Bonas, Andrew Booth, David R. Jones, Tina Miller, Alex J. Sutton, Rachel L. Shaw, Jonathan A. Smith and Bridget Young