Rosanna Hertz / Jonathan Imber (eds.)

Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods

Herausgeber: Hertz, Rosanna; Imber, Jonathan B.

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Produktbeschreibung

The very nature of elites makes them difficult for social researchers to study. This volume provides valuable insights into how researchers can successfully gain access to elite settings. Using their actual experiences, the contributors provide constructive advice as well as cautionary tales about how they learned to manoeuvre and become accepted in worlds otherwise closed to them. Three broad research areas are covered: business elites; professional elites; and community and political elites. Useful information is given on how researchers in these areas can gather data, construct interview strategies, write about their subjects and come to experience the research process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780803970373
• ISBN-10: 0803970374
• Artikelnr.: 22012894

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Rosanna Hertz and Jonathan B Imber PART ONE: BUSINESS ELITES Interviewing Important People in Big Companies - Robert J Thomas Reaching Corporate Executives - Michael Useem Fielding Hot Topics in Cool Settings - Peter Cleary Yeager and Kathy E Kram The Study of Corporate Ethics Using Electronic Media to Support Fieldwork in a Corporate Setting - John P Workman Jr Tales from the Field - Paul M Hirsch Learning from Researchers
Accounts PART TWO: PROFESSIONAL ELITES Stopping the Spin and Becoming a Prop - Joshua Gamson Fieldwork on Hollywood Elites Reflections on Fieldwork in a Complex Organization - Jennifer L Pierce Lawyers, Ethnographic Authority, and Lethal Weapons Negotiating Status - Alan Aldridge Social Scientists and Anglican Clergy How I Learned What a Crock Was - Howard S Becker PART THREE: COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL ELITES `Surely Yoüre Not in This Just to Be Helpful
- Susan A Ostrander Access, Rapport, and Interviews in Three Studies of Elites Local Knowledge and Local Power - Albert Hunter Notes on the Ethnography of Local Community Elites Research as a Communication Act - Hanna Herzog A Study on Israeli Women in Local Politics Exploding Anthropology
s Canon in the World of the Bomb - Hugh Gusterson Ethnographic Writing on Militarism