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SAGE PUBLISHING Observation Methods 4 Volumes Set 2013 Edition by Smart
Observation - as a deliberate, organized and systematic form of 'looking' or 'watching' - is integral to all scientific inquiry. It is a process that is guided by rational principles and assumptions, and motivated by an interest in obtaining data on occurrences, events, processes, reactions, forms of conduct and relationships. This collection, drawing together key contributions on observation methods in social research, provides comprehensive coverage of the historical development of observational methods and techniques and offers analytic reflection on the various issues involved in the scientific practice of observation. The volumes demonstrate the rich diversity of observational methods, techniques and associated innovations, as well as providing examples of results obtained by studies now considered to be social science classics. The volumes contain important material concerned with the development and refinement of observational methods, as well as the theoretical and philosophical understandings and assumptions integral to observation as a process. Sources that explore the practical matters involved in the stages of preparing for, engaging in, and analysing observations also feature, along with material from classic studies using observational methods. Finally, in addition to critiques of methods of observation, there are sources responding to recent developments within observational methods which utilise the possibilities afforded by contemporary digital and information technology in creative ways. VOLUME ONE: PART ONE: OBSERVATION: PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE AND ARTThe Bucket and the Searchlight - Karl PopperTwo Theories of KnowledgeRevolutions as Changes of World View - Thomas KuhnTechniques of the Observer - Jonathan CraryInterpretation - William ThompsonObserver EffectsSeeing and Knowing - Michel FoucaultRules for the Observation of Social Facts - Emile DurkheimWeber's Verstehen and the History of Qualitative Research - Jennifer PlattThe Missing Link The Definitions of Sociology and of Social Action - Max WeberSocial Relationships between Contemporaries and Indirect Social Observation - Alfred Sch tzSome Basic Problems of Interpretive Sociology - Alfred Sch tz Unexpected Interactions - Matthias GrossGeorg Simmel and the Observation of NatureScopic Regimes of Modernity - Martin JayFoucault's Art of Seeing - John RajchmanPART TWO: REFLECTIONS ON THE PRACTICE OF OBSERVATION Excerpt from The Observation of Savage Peoples - Joseph-Marie baron de GerandoRoles in Sociological Field Observation - Raymond Gold Performing Ethnography and Ethnography of Performance - Paul AtkinsonAccounts, Interviews and Observations - Robert DingwallObservational Fieldwork - Robert EmersonEverett C Hughes and the Development of Fieldwork in Sociology - Jean-Michel ChapoulieThe Chicago School and First-Hand Data - Jennifer PlattMass Observation - Penny SummerfieldSocial Research or Social Movement? VOLUME TWO: A Problem of Sociological Praxis - Michal BodemannThe Case for Interventive Observation in FieldworkBenefits of 'Observer Effects' - Torin Monahan and Jill FisherLessons from the FieldCan There Be a Feminist Ethnography? - Judith StaceyOn Tricky Ground - Linda Tuhiwai SmithResearching the Native in the Age of Uncertainty Ethnographic Showcases, 1870-1930 - Raymond CorbeyWhy Look at Animals - John BergerPART ONE: ETHICS, RISK AND OBSERVATIONEthical Challenges in Participant Observation - Jun Li A Reflection on Ethnographic FieldworkThe Risk of 'Going Observationalist' - Robert LabareeNegotiating the Hidden Dilemmas of Being an Insider Participant ObserverInformed Consent, Anticipatory Regulation and Ethnographic Practice - Elizabeth Murphy and Robert DingwallThe Art and Politics of Covert Research - David CalveyDoing 'Situated Ethics in the FieldCovert Participant Observation - Richard HilbertOn Its Nature and PracticeBetween Overt and Covert Research - Peter LugosiConcealment and Disclosure in an Ethnographic Study of a Commercial HospitalityEthical Covert Research - Paul SpickerLone Researchers at Sea - Helen Sampson and Michelle ThomasGender Risk and ResponsibilityWhen Is Disguise Justified? Alternatives to Covert Participation Observation - Martin BulmerA Comment on Disguised Observation in Sociology - Kai EriksonNew Jersey: Transaction - Laud HumphreysControversies Surrounding Laud Humphreys' Tearoom Trade - Michael Lenza An Unsettling Example of Politics and Power in Methodological Critiques Working in Hostile Environments - Nigel FieldingDangerous Fieldwork Re-Examined - Pamela NilanThe Question of Researcher Subject PositionDoing Participant Observation in a Psychiatric Hospital - Christine Oeye, Anne Karen Bjelland and Aina SkorpenResearch Ethics ResumedThe Researcher as Hooligan - Geoff PearsonWhere 'Participant' Observation Means Breaking the LawEthnographic Intimacy - Maria Perez-y-Perez and Tony StanleyThinking through the Ethics of Social Research in Sex WorldsVOLUME THREE PART ONE : PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION The Con Man as a Model Organism - Michael PettitThe Methodological Roots of Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical SelfA Note on Participant Observation - Colin BellA Contribution to the Theory of Participant Observation - Jiri KolajaProblems of Inference and Proof in Participant Observation - Howard BeckerPart of the Action or 'Going Native'? Learning to Cope with the 'Politics of Integration' - Duncan FullerThe Participant Observer and 'Over-Rapport' - S. M. MillerRole Boundaries and Paying Back - Jacqueline Wade'Switching Hats' in Participant ObservationDeep Play - Clifford Geertz Notes on the Balinese CockfightParticipant Observation as a Tool for Understanding the Field of Safety and Security - Frederic DiazParticipant Observation in Prison - James JacobsA Spy, a Shill, a Go-Between or a Sociologist - Susan MurrayUnveiling the 'Observer' in Participant ObserverPART TWO: INTERPRETATION AND PRESENTATION OF OBSERVATIONAL DATAOn Writing Fieldnotes - Nicholas WolfingerCollection Strategies and Background Expectancies Thick Description - Clifford GeertzToward an Interpretive Theory of CultureThinking through Fieldwork - Judith OkelyOn the Analysis of Observational Data - M. BloorA Discussion of the Worth and Uses of Inductive Techniques and Respondent ValidationThe Presentation of Everyday Life - Kenneth StoddartSome Textual Strategies for 'Adequate Ethnography'Representation, Legitimation and Auto-Ethnography - Nicholas HoltAn Auto-Ethnographic Writing StoryPART THREE: OBSERVATIONAL SCREENS: PHOTOGRAPHY, CCTV AND INTERNET Looking Emotionally - Monica Moreno FigueroaPhotography, Racism and Intimacy in ResearchUsing CCTV to Study Visitors in the New Art Gallery, Walsall, U.K. - Ela BeaumontEthnographic Approaches to the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication - Angela Garcia et alEthnography, the Internet, Youth Culture - Brian WilsonStrategies for Examining Social Resistance and 'Online-Offline' RelationshipsVOLUME FOUR: PART ONE: OBSERVING WORKPLACES AND WORKERSSocial Access in the Workplace - Simon CarmelAre Ethnographers GossipsThe Sweat-Shop in Summer - Annie Marion MacleanOn Doctor Watching - Sandra DanzigerFieldwork in Medical SettingsTwo Weeks in Department Stores - Annie Marion MacleanAn Observational Study of Shoplifting - Abigail Buckle and David FarringtonGlimpses at the Mind of a Waitress - Amy TannerExtracts from Living the Kitchen Life and Appendix: Ethnography in the Kitchen - Gary Alan FinePART TWO: STUDYING UP: OBSERVING THE UNOBSERVEDUp the Anthropologist - Laura NaderPerspectives Gained from Studying upEthnography in/of the World System - George MarcusThe Emergence of Multisited EthnographyStudying up Revisited - Hugh GustersonAfter Method? Ethnography in the Knowledge Economy - David Mills and Richard RatcliffeFast Capitalism - Douglas Holmes and George MarcusPara-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic AnalystAnthropology Goes to Wall Street - Karen HoResearching Police Deviance - Maurice PunchA Personal Encounter with the Limitations and Liabilities of FieldworkPotential Sources of Observer Bias in Police Observational Data - Richard SpanoObserving the Observers - Thomas Kemple and Laura HueyResearching Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance on 'Skid Row'Whistle-Blower Disclosures and Management Retaliation - Joyce Rothschild and Terence MietheThe Battle to Control Information about Organizational Corruption