books about: self-ethnography     books:       Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates Erving Goffman Anchor, 1961 Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals. It focuses on the relationship between the inmate and the institution, how the setting affects the person and how the person can deal with life on the inside.             Righteous Dopefiend (California Series in Public Anthropology) Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg University of California Press, 2009 This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling, and day labor. Righteous Dopefiend interweaves stunning ...             Language Shock: Understanding The Culture Of Conversation Michael H. Agar Harper Paperbacks, 1996 The key to communication, says linguistic anthropologist Michael Agar, is understanding the context and culture of conversation. In Language Shock, Agar reveals how deeply our language and cultural values intertwine to define who we are and how we relate to one another. From paying an electric bill in Austria to opening a bank account in Mexico to handling a parking ticket in the United States, he shows how routine tasks become lessons in the ...             Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Vintage) David Shields Vintage, 2011 With this landmark book, David Shields fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past and present, to reframe debates about the veracity of memoir and the relevance of the novel. He ...             Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters) Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1997 Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year - including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles? Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause? Human sexuality seems normal to us but it is bizarre by the standards of other animals. Jared Diamond argues that our strange sex lives were as crucial to our ...             Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods Michael Quinn Patton Sage Publications, Inc, 2001 The book that has been a resource and training tool for countless applied researchers, evaluators, and graduate students has been completely revised with hundreds of new examples and stories illuminating all aspects of qualitative inquiry. Patton has created the most comprehensive, systematic and up-to-date review of qualitative methods available. Patton has retained and expanded upon the Exhibits that highlight and summarize major issues and ...             Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research (SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services) Deborah K. (Kay) Padgett Sage Publications, Inc, 2008 The Second Edition of Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research provides accessible how-to instruction for social work and other practice-based researchers interested in carrying out rigorous and relevant qualitative research. This comprehensive, expanded version offers a sophisticated introduction to qualitative methods based upon six major approaches: ethnography, grounded theory, case study, narrative, phenomenological, and ...             Ethnography: Step-by-Step (Applied Social Research Methods) David M. Fetterman Sage Publications, Inc, 2009 “Emphasis on the use of theory as a guide is excellent and cannot be stressed enough among students . . . . Ethical standards are comprehensively addressed. Any doubts the reader may have had are dispelled by the author’s compelling arguments and illustrative examples.” -Patricia I. Documét, University of Pittsburgh “The text has included most topics that I cover in my seminar with doctoral students and some that believe they ...             In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) Philippe Bourgois Cambridge University Press, 2002 Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim when it was first published in 1995. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the roughest ghetto neighborhoods--East Harlem. This new edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem in the ...             The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Sage Publications, Inc, 2011 Presenting the state-of-the-art for the theory and practice of qualitative inquiry, this landmark Handbook has been a publishing phenomenon in the human sciences since it first published in 1994. As with earlier editions, the Fourth Edition is virtually a new volume. Representing the best thinking from top scholars from around the world, the new edition continues the book’s tradition of synthesizing an existing literature, defining the ...             Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography, Second Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and ... John Van Maanen University Of Chicago Press, 2011 For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen’s Tales of the Field has been a definitive reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detail and critically analyze the various styles and narrative conventions associated with written representations of culture. This is a book about the deskwork of fieldwork and the various ways culture ...             The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft Sage Publications, Inc, 2012 The new edition of this landmark volume emphasizes the dynamic, interactional, and reflexive dimensions of the research interview. Contributors highlight the myriad dimensions of complexity that are emerging as researchers increasingly frame the interview as a communicative opportunity as much as a data-gathering format. The book begins with the history and conceptual transformations of the interview, which is followed by chapters that discuss ...             No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City Katherine S. Newman Vintage, 2000 "Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer In No Shame in My Game , Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child care and health care, and a desperate shortage of even low-paying jobs. By intimately following the ...             Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization David Coghlan, Teresa Brannick Sage Publications Ltd, 2009 This book is the essential resource for any researcher embarking on an action research project in their own organization, and all students of organization studies, education, health studies, and community studies. In this brand new edition of the popular work, David Coghlan and Teresa Brannick provide an easy-to-follow, hands-on guide to every aspect of conducting an action research project in your own organization. Revised and updated, this ...             Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective Gary Ferraro, Susan Andreatta Wadsworth Publishing, 2009 Explore cultural anthropology in an applied and fascinating way with Gary Ferraro and Susan Andreatta's CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE. This contemporary text is highly relevant to today's students and gives you all the key material you need for your introductory course. With real-world applications of the principles and practices of anthropology, this book will help you learn to appreciate other cultures as well as your own and ...             Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance D. Soyini Madison Sage Publications, Inc, 2011 The revised Second Edition of Critical Ethnography guides readers through theories, methods, and ethics of ethnographic research creating a confidence to complete fieldwork while demonstrating analytical and theoretical depth. This text highlights the productive links between theory and method and how both become more valuable as they interact through fieldwork. Theoretical concepts range from queer theory, feminist theory, and critical race ...             The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical Linguistic Approach to Christian Doctrine Kevin J. Vanhoozer Westminster John Knox Press, 2005 Observing a strange disappearance of doctrine within the church, Kevin Vanhoozer argues that there is no more urgent task for Christians today than to engage in living truthfully with others before God. He details how doctrine serves the church--the theater of the gospel--by directing individuals and congregations to participate in the drama of what God is doing to renew all things in Jesus Christ. Taking his cue from George Lindbeck and others ...             Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop (Music Culture) Joseph G. Schloss Wesleyan, 2004 Despite having created one of the most important musical cultures of the last fifty years, hip-hop composers who use digital sampling are rarely taken seriously as artists. But hip-hop deejays and producers have collectively developed an artistic system that features a complex aesthetic, a detailed array of social protocols, a rigorous set of ethical expectations and a rich historical consciousness. Based on ten years of research among hip-hop ...             The Return of the Real: The Avante-Garde at the End of the Century Hal Foster The MIT Press, 1996 In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art ...             Reflective Interviewing: A Guide to Theory and Practice Kathryn J. Roulston Sage Publications Ltd, 2010 Offering a theoretically-informed guide for researchers learning how to interview in the social sciences, this book provides a practical approach to interviewing, helping researchers to learn about themselves as interviewers in ways that will inform the design, conduct, analysis, and representation of interview data. 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