Reflexivity & voice / Rosanna Hertz, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hertz, Rosanna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Research--Methodology.

Sociology.

Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Sociology--Fieldwork.

Social sciences--Fieldwork.

Women's studies--Research.

Women's studies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 318 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Reflexivity and voice

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1997]

Summary:

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 authors voiceas well as the voices of the subjectsis 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.

Contents:

Introduction: Reflexivity and Voice / Rosanna Hertz, Editor vii

Part I Reflexivity

1. Who Am I? The Need for a Variety of Selves in the Field / Shulamit Reinharz 3

2. Parent-as-Researcher: The Politics of Researching in the Personal Life / Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler 21

3. Ethnography and Anxiety: Field Work and Reflexivity in the Vortex of U.S.-Cuban Relations / Raymond J. Michalowski 45

4. A Feminist Revisiting of the Insider/Outsider Debate: The "Outsider Phenomenon" in Rural Iowa / Nancy A. Naples 70

5. Studying One's Own in the Middle East: Negotiating Gender and Self-Other Dynamics in the Field / Hale C. Bolak 95

6. Interactive Interviewing: Talking About Emotional Experience / Carolyn Ellis, Christine E. Kiesinger, Lisa M. Tillmann-Healy 119

7. Reflexivity, Feminism, and Difference / Rahel R. Wasserfall 150

8. Do You Really Know How They Make Love? The Limits on Intimacy With Ethnographic Informants / Tamar El-Or 169

Part II Voice

9. The Myth of Silent Authorship: Self, Substance, and Style in Ethnographic Writing / Kathy Charmaz, Richard G. Mitchell, Jr. 193

10. Personal Writing in Social Science: Issues of Production and Interpretation / Marjorie L. DeVault 216

11. Reconsidering "Table Talk": Critical Thoughts on the Relationship Between Sociology, Autobiography, and Self-Indulgence / Eric Mykhalovskiy 229

12. Communication Problems in the Intensive Care Unit / Albert B. Robillard 252

13. Breaking Silence: Some Fieldwork Strategies in Cloistered and Non-Cloistered Communities / Mary Anne Wichroski 265

14. The Case of Mistaken Identity: Problems in Representing Women on the Right / Faye Ginsburg 283

15. Gender and Voice, Signature and Audience in North Indian Lyric Traditions / Geeta Patel 300.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0761903836

0761903844

OCLC:

36327481