<p>This brilliant new book by Paul Atkinson offers scholars and students alike foundational insights on how to conduct ethnography based on granular analysis, that is work that traces the grain of everyday life. This book has a  commanding grasp of the many traditions that define contemporary ethnographic inquiry.  It  will define ethnographic inquiry for the next decade. For this we are in Atkinson′s  debt.</p>

- Norman K. Denzin,

‘A deceptively simple <em>tour de force</em> by a master of ethnography. An essential text for all students and teachers of the method’s theory and practice.’

- Tia De Nora,

<p>A masterclass by a master ethnographer on how to make sense of qualitative data.</p>

- Stefan Timmermans,

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<p>A vital contribution. And all the more timely, given the continuing explosion of qualitative and ethnographic research.</p>

- Sam Hillyard,

Written by a leading authority, this book discusses a wide range of analytic ideas that can and should inform ethnographic analysis. In introducing the notion of ‘granular ethnography’ it argues for an approach to qualitative research that is sensitive to the complexities of everyday social life. A much-needed antidote to superficial research and analysis, the text deals not merely with the practical methods of fieldwork, but with the far more ambitious enterprise of turning ethnographic data into productive ideas and concepts. Paul Atkinson enables us not merely to do ethnography, but truly to think ethnographically. His book will prove invaluable to students and researchers across the social sciences.
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Introducing the idea of ′granular ethnography′, this interdisciplinary text shows readers how to take ethnography’s theoretical foundations into account and clearly lays out the importance of doing so.
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Introduction: Granular ethnography Defining social reality Encounters Language and performance Identities Knowledge and reason Senses, places and things Time and Memory
This brilliant new book by Paul Atkinson offers scholars and students alike foundational insights on how to conduct ethnography based on granular analysis, that is work that traces the grain of everyday life. This book has a  commanding grasp of the many traditions that define contemporary ethnographic inquiry.  It  will define ethnographic inquiry for the next decade. For this we are in Atkinson′s  debt.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780857025906
Publisert
2017-07-04
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Ltd
Vekt
350 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
216

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Om bidragsyterne

Paul Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University. Recent publications include For Ethnography (SAGE 2014) and Thinking Ethnographically (SAGE 2017). The fourth book in his quartet will be Crafting Ethnography, also for SAGE. The fourth edition of Hammersley and Atkinson Ethnography: Principles in Practice was published by Routledge in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Learned Society of Wales.