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Heroin use in England : an (auto)ethnographic study of drug addiction / Stephen Wakeman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wakeman, Stephen, author.
- Series:
- SAGE research methods. Cases.
- SAGE research methods. Cases
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heroin abuse--Social aspects--Great Britain--Research--Case studies.
- Heroin abuse.
- Social sciences--Biographical methods--Case studies.
- Social sciences.
- Participant observation--Case studies.
- Participant observation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- London : SAGE Publications, 2014.
- Summary:
- This case study reports on the methodological complexities of doing ethnographic research on heroin addiction when the researcher is an ex-heroin addict himself. The case provides an account of the difficulties of accessing and researching criminal/deviant populations, demonstrating some of the many potentials and problems to be found in adopting (auto)ethnographic techniques in the process. Ultimately, it is shown here that the links between the researcher's 'self' (past or present) and the subject studied can be usefully employed in social research to reveal new and illuminating ways of understanding research topics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 10, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9781473951389 (ebook) :
- OCLC:
- 953359609
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