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Ethnography in Organizations (Qualitative Research Methods)

Helen B. Schwartzman

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Written in a clear, easy-to-follow style, Ethnography in Organizations evaluates the wide range of ethnographic research that has been--and continues to be--conducted in organizations. Beginning with the classic definition of bureaucracy and rational organization presented by Max Weber, author Helen B. Schwartzman analyzes three main paradigms--functional studies, structural analyses, and interpretive research. Using the Hawthorne Study as a starting point, this useful volume explores such topics as the roles and methods used by organizational ethnographers, the problems and prospects for conducting fieldwork in organizations, the "incorporation" of American life, and the role that everyday, but often overlooked, routines play in the production and reproduction of organizations, institutions, and society. Replete with vivid examples and illustrations taken from both public and private sector settings, Ethnography in Organizations is a must for anyone conducting research in an organizational setting.

The Sociology Student Writer's Manual, Fourth Edition

William A. Johnson, Richard P. Rettig, Gregory M. Scott, Stephen M. Garrison

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The most comprehensive book available that deals specifically with writing sociology papers, this updated reference/manual helps users learn how to research and write in sociology, and how to improve their writing ability in general. Based on the authors' extensive experience in teaching a variety of sociology courses, it combines the latest sociological research and writing techniques with a broad spectrum of writing activities. It gives specific directions for writing a variety of papers in sociology—from introductory to advanced—while also providing instructions on how to write and how to format the paper and cite sources following the American Sociological Association's guidelines. The manual gives users the guidance they need to tackle projects of all complexities. The author details writing as communication, writing competently, formats, sources, conducting research in sociology, and how to write different types of sociology papers. For those interested in writing in a sociological framework.

The Rhetoric of Social Research: Understood and Believed

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Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society

Charles E. Lindblom

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How do ordinary citizens, government officials, opinion leaders, or social scientists attempt to solve social problems? This book analyzes our attempt to understand society so that we can reshape it. In so doing, the author largely bypasses both epistemology and contemporary highly abstract theory on knowledge and society in order to achieve a far more concrete analysis of discourse and inquiry in social problem solving. There is a tragic discrepancy, argues the author, between our abilities to solve problems and the difficulty of the problems to be solved. We must make do with inadequate information and inconclusive analyses, for the task is less one of learning the truth than of proceeding in inquiry and decisions when the truth cannot be known. He discusses the many obstacles that prevent us from solving social problems, focusing in particular on learned incompetence. According to the author, parents teach children not to think certain thoughts, and schools often engage more in indoctrination than education. Political rhetoric and commercial sales promotion feed a steady diet of misrepresentation. Social science does help. But because it is dependent on popular thought, it shares the impairments of thought found in both political figures and ordinary citizens. It also develops its own distinctive impairments. Although social science can be improved in ways that the author outlines in his book, social inquiry calls for such significant contributions from lay thought that it renders many conventional ideals of scientific problem solving inappropriate. The author contends that the route to better social problem solving is not through either scientific or popular consensus or agreement, however much they are valued in the world of science and social science, but through a competition of ideas. The index of a society's competence he states, is in its discord over ends, values, or purposes.

The Role of Theory in Sex Research (Kinsey Institute Series)

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This inside look at sexual radicalism in contemporary American culture calls into question two feminist orthodoxies: that the 1960's sexual revolution failed women, and that the sexual attitudes most prominent in current youth cultures are deplorably regressive. Comparing the American sexscape she inhabits to the scene as perceived by feminist theorists, Carol Siegel ponders whether the sexual revolution may have succeeded, but in ways not recognise by scholars of gender and sexuality. In discouraging undomesticated heterosexuality, academic feminism neglects the connection between mainstream opposition to all unrestrained sexual expression and the growth of new forms of homophobia in our times. At the same time, the youth subcultures' challenges to these views of sexuality and gender are dismissed as insignificant, or misunderstood as sexist.In this book, Siegel accords them more respectful attention. She draws on her own experience as a college student to create a personal history of academic feminism's early sympathy with bourgeois values. She looks at the development of American sex advice literature and at the reception of such 'transgressive' popular films such as "Basic Instinct", "Thelma and Louise" and "Natural Born Killers" to show that the most profoundly capitalist feminist theories have been the most influential. A more heartening vision emerges in the book's second half where a record of conversations about sex and gender with young people, and of their responses to products designed for their consumption, takes the reader through some of today's most radical youth cultures and suggests new directions for gender studies.

Psychoanalytic Aspects of Fieldwork (Qualitative Research Methods)

Jennifer C. Hunt

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Rational, dispassionate, an emotional outsider, someone unaffected by the field setting--these are the traditional views of the fieldworker. This view, however, is changing; recent literature has pointed to the fieldworker's own personal stake and involvement in the research setting. Now, Jennifer Hunt takes another step in this direction, showing how the fieldworker's unconscious mind often shapes the interaction between researcher, subject, and setting. The role played by affective and cognitive processes in research, how different schools view researcher subjectivity, and the definition of the researcher as a person and investigative tool are thoroughly examined. In addition, Hunt carefully defines psychoanalytic theory and method and shows how it differs from traditional sociological approaches to fieldwork. Replete with case analyses of her own work and that of others, Psychoanalytic Aspects of Fieldwork is a fascinating, challenging reminder to the qualitative researcher of the complexities of working in the field. "Jennifer Hunt has made a saltatory step in facilitating the capacity of investigators in the field to make effective use of their inner emotional resources. . . .Drawing upon her own experiences and upon in-depth interviews of a number of her colleagues, she convincingly demonstrates that unconscious strivings, aversions, and emotional conflicts within the investigator play a major role in the process of selecting, studying and constructing hypotheses about target populations." --Martin A. Silverman, M.D., P.A., Private Practice "A clearly written overview of psychoanalytic theory and its divergences from classical and interactionist sociological theory makes this a useful text for novice and expert alike, while her discussion of the process of transference in fieldwork relationships contributes interesting insights into both qualitative analysis and Freudian theory." --Nexus: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology "The strength of Hunt's book is that it applies systematically one theoretical framework, psychoanalysis, to all the phases of fieldwork and illustrates its pertinence through fascinating illustrations, many derived from her own experience. The book will make readers sensitive to many pitfalls in dealing with delicate situations, even if these pitfalls cannot be avoided." --Contemporary Sociology

Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods (SAGE Focus Editions)

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Studying across race and ethnic lines creates many problems for the researcher. These problems involve practical, strategic, ethical, and epistemological questions alike. The contributors to Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods, most of them scholars of color, examine the array of methods used in quantitative, qualitative, and comparative/historical research to show how ethnic-sensitive research can best be carried out. Among the methodological traditions discussed are survey research, demography, testing and assessment, ethnography, discourse analysis, comparative methods, and archival research. Of interest not only to the researcher and instructor of race and ethnic studies, this volume should be of equal value to social scientists interested in teaching or practicing any form of research that needs to properly address issues of race and ethnicity. "This comprehensive guide will be an invaluable resource for anyone who teaches and/or is engaged in research in the field of race and ethnicity." --Behavioural Psychotherapy "I highly recommend this volume for those researchers who are genuinely interested in producing better and more creative solutions to some of the issues and problems involving racial and ethnic minority groups." --Journal of Marketing Research "In Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods, John H. Stanfield II and Rutledge M. Dennis call for serious and rigorous treatment of the subject which sheds the journalistic style, narrow focus, and cultural bias of much of past research. . . . They bring together 13 articles that reveal the rich diversity of methods available for researching ethnic groups and ethnic relations. . . . There is a healthy dose of multidisciplinarity. . . . The book is essential for U.S. race and ethnic researchers who seek to avoid the narrowness and pitfalls of much past research. I would recommend this book for research seminars on race and ethnic relations specifically and for general methodology courses which seek to present the diversity of approaches to sociological issues." --Contemporary Sociology "This book contains essays that will stimulate much discussion among scholars while providing practical, ethical, and strategic methodological considerations for conducting research across racial and ethnic lines." --Nursing Research

Using Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research (Organizational Research Methods)

Thomas W. Lee

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Using Qualitative Methods In Organizational Research offers a broad, overall description of qualitative research with the objective of facilitating the greater integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in organizational research. The book provides a look at the methods and tactics of qualitative research for both generating and testing management theories. It includes guidelines for deciding whether to use qualitative methods and overviews of four specific research designs. It describes how qualitative data is collected and analyzed and when and how to quantitatively analyze qualitative data. The author articulates the critical roles for reliability and validity and in the final chapter offers conclusions and recommendations for writing articles that report qualitative studies. Using Qualitative Methods In Organizational Research is appropriate for courses intended to introduce students to qualitative methods, for those traditional quantitative researchers interested in expanding their research methodology base, and for those interested in gaining additional insight into understanding which methods to use in future research.

A Handbook of Leisure Studies

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This handbook addresses the history, organization and central debates in the field of leisure studies. More than 30 chapters from leading international scholars are presented in 5 clearly defined parts. These examine the origins of leisure studies; review and evaluate the contributions and approaches to leisure studies of key social science disciplines; provide a guide to core questions in the organization of leisure that recur in the literature; consider locations and forms of leisure; and consider the key themes that run through debates as the subject has matured in a central part of the social science canon. Critically summing up the achievements of the field and providing an agenda for future debate and research, it offers an invaluable resource for students, scholars and lecturers.

New Methods for Social History (International Review of Social History Supplements)

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During the past two decades sociologists have developed a range of new research methods that could be of much use to social historians. The present collection of essays introduces some of the most interesting of these new methods: event structure analysis, words-to-numbers, network analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, fuzzy logic, and recursive regression. All essays are written by outstanding experts, address noninitiated readers and use as little jargon as possible. Methods are explained through the use of historical case studies; annotated topical bibliographies have been added.