Extreme Methods
Innovative Approaches to Social Science Research
Published on 22. May 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
273 pages
978-0-321-05487-6 (ISBN)
Description
This unusual text explores little-known aspects of social science research with readings that focus on "dangerous" approaches to conducting research.
In this collection of readings, students are introduced, through real research examples, to the real way that research is conducted. Whereas teaching and studying research methods can often be a rather dry and cumbersome task, Extreme Methods provides students with interesting and challenging issues and ideas.
In this collection of readings, students are introduced, through real research examples, to the real way that research is conducted. Whereas teaching and studying research methods can often be a rather dry and cumbersome task, Extreme Methods provides students with interesting and challenging issues and ideas.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
1000 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-321-05487-6 (9780321054876)
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Content
Preface.
I.BEYOND CONVENTION: EXTREME METHODS OF FIELDWORK.
1.Richard Tewksbury, Acting Like an Insider: Studying Hidden Environments as a Potential Participant.
2.J. Mitchell Miller, Covert Participant Observation: Reconsidering the Least Used Method.
3.Richard A. Hilbert, Covert Participant Observation: On Its Nature and Practice.
4.James W. Marquart, Doing Research in Prison: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Full Participation as a Guard.
5.Kathleen Barker, Lynda Fong, Samara Grossman, Colin Quin, and Rachel Reid, Comparison of Self-Reported Recycling Attitudes and Behaviors with Actual Behavior.
II.ESTABLISHING ENTREE AND RAPPORT.
1.Richard A. Berk and Joseph M. Adams, Establishing Rapport with Deviant Groups.
2.Richard Tewksbury and Patricia Gagne, Assumed and Presumed Identities: Problems of Self-Presentation in Field Research.
3.Richard Wright, Scott H. Decker, Allison K. Redfern, and Dietrich L. Smith, A Snowball's Chance in Hell: Doing Fieldwork with Active Residential Burglars.
4.Mark S. Hamm, Doing Gang Research in the 1990s: Pedagogical Implications of the Literature.
III.GET A LITTLE DIRT ON YOUR HANDS: ILLUSTRATIONS OF EXTREME FIELDWORK.
1.J. Mitchell Miller and Lance H. Selva, Drug Enforcement's Double-Edged Sword: An Assessment of Asset Forfeiture Programs.
2.Columbus B. Hopper and Johnny Moore, Women in Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.
3.Wendy G. Lozano and Tanice G. Foltz, Into the Darkness: An Ethnographic Study of Witchcraft and Death.
4.Carol Rambo-Ronai and Carolyn Ellis, Turns-Ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer.
5.James Myers, Nonmainstream Body Modification: Genital Piercing, Branding, Burning, and Cutting.
IV.STIGMA, DANGER AND ETHICS: PROBLEMS OF EXTREME METHODS.
1.David Sonenschein, On Having One's Research Seized.
2.Terry Williams, Eloise Dunlap, Bruce D. Johnson, and Ansley Hamid, Personal Safety in Dangerous Places.
3.Erich Goode, The Ethics of Deception in Social Research: A Case Study.
4.Rik Scarce, Scholarly Ethics and Courtroom Antics: Where Researchers Stand in the Eyes of the Law.
I.BEYOND CONVENTION: EXTREME METHODS OF FIELDWORK.
1.Richard Tewksbury, Acting Like an Insider: Studying Hidden Environments as a Potential Participant.
2.J. Mitchell Miller, Covert Participant Observation: Reconsidering the Least Used Method.
3.Richard A. Hilbert, Covert Participant Observation: On Its Nature and Practice.
4.James W. Marquart, Doing Research in Prison: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Full Participation as a Guard.
5.Kathleen Barker, Lynda Fong, Samara Grossman, Colin Quin, and Rachel Reid, Comparison of Self-Reported Recycling Attitudes and Behaviors with Actual Behavior.
II.ESTABLISHING ENTREE AND RAPPORT.
1.Richard A. Berk and Joseph M. Adams, Establishing Rapport with Deviant Groups.
2.Richard Tewksbury and Patricia Gagne, Assumed and Presumed Identities: Problems of Self-Presentation in Field Research.
3.Richard Wright, Scott H. Decker, Allison K. Redfern, and Dietrich L. Smith, A Snowball's Chance in Hell: Doing Fieldwork with Active Residential Burglars.
4.Mark S. Hamm, Doing Gang Research in the 1990s: Pedagogical Implications of the Literature.
III.GET A LITTLE DIRT ON YOUR HANDS: ILLUSTRATIONS OF EXTREME FIELDWORK.
1.J. Mitchell Miller and Lance H. Selva, Drug Enforcement's Double-Edged Sword: An Assessment of Asset Forfeiture Programs.
2.Columbus B. Hopper and Johnny Moore, Women in Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.
3.Wendy G. Lozano and Tanice G. Foltz, Into the Darkness: An Ethnographic Study of Witchcraft and Death.
4.Carol Rambo-Ronai and Carolyn Ellis, Turns-Ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer.
5.James Myers, Nonmainstream Body Modification: Genital Piercing, Branding, Burning, and Cutting.
IV.STIGMA, DANGER AND ETHICS: PROBLEMS OF EXTREME METHODS.
1.David Sonenschein, On Having One's Research Seized.
2.Terry Williams, Eloise Dunlap, Bruce D. Johnson, and Ansley Hamid, Personal Safety in Dangerous Places.
3.Erich Goode, The Ethics of Deception in Social Research: A Case Study.
4.Rik Scarce, Scholarly Ethics and Courtroom Antics: Where Researchers Stand in the Eyes of the Law.