VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL IDEAS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE FIELDWORK TRADITION
Articulating Theory, Practice and Objectivity in the Ethnography of Education as a Community of Practice
Dennis Beach
The Public and Private in C. Wright Mills’s Life and Work
John Brewer
Village on the Border, Anthropology at the Crossroads: The Significance of a Classic British Ethnography
Anthony Cohen
The Methodological Impact of Feminism: A Troubling Issue for Sociology?
Rachel Lara Cohen, Christina Hughes and Richard Lampard
The Only Honest Thing: Autoethnography, Reflexivity and Small Crises in Fieldwork
Sara Delamont
Searching for Realism, Structure and Agency in Actor Network Theory
Dave Elder-Vass
The Sad Demise, Mysterious Disappearance, and Glorious Triumph of Symbolic Internationalism
Gary Fine
Towards a Peopled Ethnography: Developing Theory from Group Life
Gary Fine
On Fieldwork
Erving Goffman
Qualitative Inquiry: Where Are the Ruins?
Maggie MacLure
Lifelong Learning to Labour: Apprenticeship, Masculinity and Communities of Practice
Andrew Parker
Some Problems of Interpretative Historiography
Paul Rock
The Life Histories of W. I. Thomas and Robert E. Park
Paul Baker
Institutional Ethnography and Actor–Network Theory: A Framework for Researching the Assessment of Trainee Teachers
Jonathan Tummons
The Geography of Disciplinary Amnesia: Eleven Scholars Reflect on the International State of Symbolic Interactionism
Phillip Vannini
VOLUME TWO: TECHNIQUE AND TECHNOLOGIES
The Importance of Being a ‘Lady’: Hyper-Femininity and Heterosexuality in the Private, Single-Sex Primary School
Alexandra Allan
Charting the Ludodrome: The Mediation of Urban and Simulated Space and Rise of the Flâneur Electronique
Rowland Atkinson and Paul Willis
Why Are Social Scientists Still Reluctant to Embrace Email as Data? An Ethnographic Examination of Interactions within Virtual Teams
Yee Wei (Carol) Au and Abigail Marks
“Either Side of Delphy Bridge”: A Deep Mapping Project Evoking and Engaging the Lives of Older Adults in Rural North Cornwall
Jane Bailey and Iain Biggs
From Co-location to Co-presence: Shifts in the Use of Ethnography for the Study of Knowledge
Anne Beaulieu
How I Learned What a Crock Was
Howard Becker
Photo-Elicitation and the Agricultural Landscape: ‘Seeing’ and ‘Telling’ about Farming, Community and Place
Ruth Beilin
Back to the Shed: Gendered Visions of Technology and Domesticity
Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish
Animating Suspension: Waiting for Mobilities
David Bissell
Childern, Mobility and Space: Using GPS and Mobile Phone Technologies in Ethnographic Research
Pia Christensen, Miguel R. Mikkelsen, Thomas Alexander, Sick Nielsen and Henrik Harder
Framing Rural Fashion: Observations from Badminton Horse Trials
Alison Goodrum and Kevin Hunt
Digital Futures? Sociological Challenges and Opportunities in the Emergent Semantic Web
Susan Halford, Catherine Pope and Mark Weal
Knowing the City: Maps, Mobility and Urban Outreach Work
Tom Hall and Robin Smith
Using Internet Technologies (Such As Skype) as a Research Medium: A Research Note
Paul Hanna
Talking about Pictures: A Case for Photo Elicitation
Douglas Harper
Life Stories and Social Careers: Ageing and Social Life in an Ex-Mining Town
Robin Humphrey
The Power of Corridors: Connecting Doors, Mobilising Materials, Plotting Openness
Rachel Hurdley
Recording Technologies and the Interview in Sociology, 1920–2000
Raymond Lee
Fishmongers in a Global Economy: Craft and Social Relations on a London Market
Dawn Lyon and Les Back
An Ethics of Intimacy: Online Dating, Viral-Sociality and Living with HIV
Fadhila Mazanderani
Cementing Relations within a Sporting Field: Fell Running in the English Lake District and the Acquisition of Existential Capital
Sarah Nettleton
Walking, Sensing, Belonging: Ethno-Mimesis as Performative Praxis
Maggie O’Neill and Phil Hubbard
Being There, Teleography and the Wire
Martin Parker
An Urban Tour; The Sensory Sociality of Ethnographic Place-Making
Sarah Pink
New Avenues for Sociological Inquiry: Evolving Forms of Ethnographic Practice
Laura Robinson and Jeremy Schulz
The Postmodern Ethnographic Flaneur and the Study of Hyper-Mediated Everyday Life
Charles Soukup
VOLUME THREE: THE PURPOSE, TASK AND AMBITIONS OF FIELDWORK
Qualitative Research- Unity and Diversity
Paul Atkinson
“The second Banbury Study”, Colin Bell Interviewed by Paul Thompson
Paul Thompson
Emotion and Place Promotion: Passionate about a Former Coalfield
Katy Bennett
Exaggerated Femininity and Tortured Masculinity: Embodying Gender in the Horseracing Industry
Deborah Butler and Nickie Charles
(Net)Working Out: Social Capital in Private Health Club
Nick Crossley
Going Back to Re-Study Communities: Challenges and Opportunities
Graham Crow
The Smell of Sweat and Rum: Teacher Authority in Capoeira Classes
Sara Delamont
Four Days in a Strange Place
Locus Congressi
Mundane Mobilities, Performance and Spaces of Tourism
Tim Edensor
Consumption Styles and the Fluid Complexity of Punk Authenticity
William Force
Notes from the Sports Club: Confessional Tales of Two Researchers
Darla Fortune and Heather Mair
Ethnography in Evolution: Adapting to the Animal “Other” in Organizations
Lindsay Hamilton and Nick Taylor
Anthropology, Class and the ‘Big Heads’: An Ethnography of Distinctions between ‘Rough’ and ‘Posh’ amongst Women Workers in the UK Pottery Industry
Elizabeth Hart
Seeking the Analytic Imagination: Reflections on the Process of Interpreting Qualitative Data
Allison James
Constructing the Sick Child: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Hospitals
Allison James and Penny Curtis
If No Means No, Does Yes Mean Yes? Consenting to Research Intimacies
Julia O’Connell Davidson
You Are What You Research: A Researcher Partisanship and the Sociology of the Underdog
Karen Lumsden
Ethnographic Returning, Qualitative Longitudinal Research and the Reflective Analysis of Social Practice
Karen O’Reilly
Close But Not Too Close: Friendship as Method(ology) in Ethnographic Research Encounters
Helen Owten and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson
Everyday Risks and Professional Dilemmas: Fieldwork with Alcohol-based (Sporting) Subcultures
Catherine Palmer and Kirrilly Thompson
How to Look Good (Nearly) Naked: The Performative Regulation of the Swimmer’s Body
Susie Scott
Goffman’s Interaction Order at the Margins: Stigma, Role, and Normalization in the Outreach Encounter
Robin Smith
Uncovering a Hidden “I” in Contemporary Urban Ethnography
Alford Young, Jr
VOLUME FOUR: OUTCOMES: STYLE, QUALITY AND IMPACT
Introduction: What Is the Empirical?
Lisa Adkins and Celia Lury
The Globalization of Qualitative Research
Pertti Alasuutari
The Mastersingers: Language and Practice in an Operatic Masterclass
Paul Atkinson
Identifying and Comparing Scandinavian Ethnography: Comparisons and Influences
Dennis Beach
For Public Sociology
Michael Burawoy
Half-Remembrance of Things Past: Critics and Cuts of Old
John Eldridge
On the Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto
Alice Goffman
On Becker’s Studies of Marijuana Use as an Example of Analytic Induction
Martyn Hammersley
Local Knowledge and Local Power: Notes on the Ethnography of Local Community Elites
Albert Hunter
The New Mobilities Paradigm
Mimi Sheller and John Urry
Seeing Differently: Ethnography and Explanatory Power
Beverley Skeggs
Novel Ethnographic Representations and the Dilemmas of Judgement
Andrew Sparkes
New Methods, Old Problems: A Sceptical View of Innovation in Qualitative Research
Max Travers
De-Intellectualizing American Sociology: A History, of Sorts
Stephen Turner
Questioning Research with Children: Discrepancy between Theory and Practice?
Emma Uprichard
Popularizing Ethnography: Reflections on Writing for Popular Audiences in Magazines and Blogs
Phillip Vannini
Scrutinizing the Street: Poverty, Morality, and the pitfalls of Urban Ethnography
Loïc Wacquant
The Curious Eclipse of Prison Ethnography in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Loïc Wacquant
Innovation in Qualitative Research Methods: A Narrative Review
Rose Wiles, Graham Crow and Helen Pain
