Reflexivity and Voice
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 1997
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-7619-0383-3 (ISBN)
Description
Increasingly, qualitative researchers are concerned with issues pertaining to how their studies are written and recorded. They are equally concerned with creating a new ethnography in which the authorAEs voiceuas well as the voices of the subjectsuis more fully realized, especially for the reader. This edited volume, a significant expansion of a special issue of the Journal of Qualitative Sociology, presents an array of contemporary ethnographers grappling with the problems and new conventions of ethnographic writing. The chapters cover topics including communication problems in intensive care units, fieldwork strategies in cloistered and non-cloistered communities, gender and voice, writing in social science, limits of ethnographic informants, and interactive interviewing. With contributions from leading scholars in many disciplines, Reflexivity and Voice is the ideal tool for scholars, researchers, and students in qualitative research, communication studies, anthropology, and sociology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
649 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-0383-3 (9780761903833)
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Rosanna Hertz
Reflexivity and Voice
Book
08/1997
1st Edition
SAGE Publications Inc
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Person
Rosanna Hertz is the 1919 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Oxford Press, 2008). She is also the author or co-author of five edited collections which focus on the use of qualitative methods including Open to Disruption: Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology (Vanderbilt University, 2015) with Anita Ilta Garey and Margaret K. Nelson.
Content
Part A Reflexivity: who am I? - the need for a variety of selves in field, Shulamit Reinharz; parents as researchers, Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler; ethnography and anxiety - fieldwork and reflexivity in the vortex of the US-Cuba relations, Raymond A. Michalowski; a feminist revisiting of the insider/outsider debate - the "outsider phenomenon" in rural Iowa, Nancy A. Naples; gender and indigenous research in the Middle East - negotiating self-dynamics in the field, Hale C. Bolak; do you really know how they make love? - the limits on intimacy with ethnographic informants, Tamar El-Or. Part B Voice: the myth of silent authorship - self, substance and style in ethnographic writing, Kathy Charmaz and Richard G. Mitchell; personal writing in social science - issues of production and interpretation, Marjorie L. DeVault; reconsidering table talk - critical thoughts on the relationship between sociology, autobiography and self-indulgence, Eric Mykhalowskiy; the case of mistaken identity - problems in representing women on the right, Faye Ginsberg; gender and voice, signature and audience in North Indian lyric traditions, Geeta Patel.