Fieldwork, participation and practice : ethics and dilemmas in qualitative research / Marlene de Laine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laine, Marlene de.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Fieldwork.

Qualitative research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Qualitative research.

Social sciences--Methodology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This timely and topical look at the role of ethics in fieldwork takes into account some of the major issues confronting qualitative researchers. The main purposes of this book are twofold: to promote an understanding of the harmful possibilities of fieldwork; and to provide ways of dealing with ethical problems and dilemmas. To these ends, examples of actual fieldwork are provided that address ethical problems and dilemmas, and posit ways of dealing with them.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1

Introduction

2

The moral career of the qualitative fieldworker

3

Scripts and staging the self

4

Back regions and sensitive methods

5

Roles and role performance

6

Ethical dilemmas: the demands and expectations

of various audiences

7

Field notes: ethics and the emotional self

8

Textual 'impression management' of self and others

9

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-225) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4462-2817-7

1-280-36945-0

9786610369454

1-4129-3181-9

OCLC:

191036525