Research Catalog

Title

Field research : a sourcebook and field manual / edited by Robert G. Burgess.

Publication

London ; Boston : G. Allen & Unwin, 1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

Burgess, Robert G.

Description

xii, 286 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary social research series ; no. 4

Uniform Title

Contemporary social research series ; no. 4.

Subject

• Sociology > Research
• Ethnology > Fieldwork
• Social sciences > Fieldwork
• Ethnology
• Research
• Sociology
• Ethnology
• Research
• Sociology
• research (function)
• sociology
• Ethnology > Fieldwork
• Social sciences > Fieldwork
• Sociology > Research
• Feldforschung
• Soziologie
• Einführung
• Veldwerk
• Sociale wetenschappen
• Sciences sociales > Recherche sur le terrain (méthode d'enseignement)

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [264]-279.

Contents

Approaches to field research / Robert G. Burgess -- Early field experiences / Robert G. Burgess -- Procedures for demarcating a field of study / Ely Devons and Max Gluckman -- Methodological issues in the study of bureaucratic elites: a case study of West Point / Gary Spencer -- Launching a neighbourhood study in an African town / Valdo Pons -- Some role problems in field research / Robert G. Burgess -- Participant observers / Ronald Frankenberg -- The participant observer as a human being: observations on the personal aspects of fieldwork / Herbert J. Gans -- The making of a female researcher: role problems in fieldwork / Lois Easterday ... [et al] -- The problem of ethical integrity in participant observation / I.C. Jarvie -- Elements of sampling in field research / Robert G. Burgess -- Sampling in ethnographic fieldwork / John J. Honigmann -- Time sampling as a field technique / Linda Brookover Bourque and Kurt W. Back -- The key informant technique: a non-ethnographic application / Marc-Adélard Tremblay -- The unstructured interview as a conversation / Robert G. Burgess -- Interviewing in field research / William Foote Whyte -- The life study: on mutual recognition and the subjective inquiry / Thomas J. Cottle -- Personal documents, oral sources and life histories / Robert G. Burgess -- Local history and oral history / Raphael Samuel -- The study of life history / David G. Mandelbaum -- Anthropology and the discipline of historical context / E.P. Thompson -- Multiple strategies in field research / Robert G. Burgess -- Some methodological problems of field studies / Morris Zelditch, Jr. -- The integration of fieldwork and survey methods / Sam D. Sieber -- Keeping field notes / Robert G. Burgess -- The art of note-taking / Beatrice Webb -- The diary of an anthropologist / Bronislaw Malinowski -- The role of theory in field research / Robert G. Burgess -- The role of discoveries in social science / W. Baldamus -- Generating formal theory / Barney G. Glaser -- Styles of data analysis: approaches and implications / Robert G. Burgess -- Participant observation: the analysis of qualitative field data / Howard S. Becker and Blanche Geer -- The analysis of social drama / Victor Turner -- The British Association scandal: the effect of publicity on a sociological investigation / D.H.J. Morgan.

ISBN

• 004312013X
• 9780043120132
• 0043120148
• 9780043120149

LCCN

81022918

OCLC

• ocm08170199
• 8170199
• SCSB-8797850

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library