Dr. Dorothy Pawluch is Associate Professor at McMaster University, Department of Sociology. Her areas of expertise are sociology of health, deviance, work and occupations, and social psychology.Dr. William Shaffir is Professor of Sociology at McMaster. His areas of expertise are socialization and conversion, ethnic relations, religious communities, and field research methods.Dr. Charlene E. Miall is Professor of Sociology at McMaster. Her areas of expertise are the social construction of knowledge, social psychology, deviance, family, and qualitative methods.|Dr. William Shaffir is Professor of Sociology at McMaster. His areas of expertise are socialization and conversion, ethnic relations, religious communities, and field research methods.

• PrefaceIntroduction to Doing Ethnography: Studying Everyday LifeChapter 1: Studying Human Knowing and Acting: The Interactionist Quest for Authenticity - Robert PrusPart 1: Doing Ethnography: Challenges And StrategiesPart 1A: Considering the Merits of Qualitative ResearchChapter 2: Interpretive Practices and the Role of Qualitative Methods in Informing Large-Scale Survey Research - Charlene Miall and Karen MarchChapter 3: The Charms and Challenges of an Academic Qualitative Researcher Doing Participatory Action Research (PAR) - Karen Szala-Meneok and Lynne LohfeldPart 1B: Interviewing StrategiesChapter 4: Self-Presentation and Social Poetics: Active Interview Tactics in Research with Public Figures - Andrew D. Hathaway and Michael F. AtkinsonChapter 5: Conducting Field Research with Young Offenders Convicted of Murder and Manslaughter: Gaining Access, Risks, and ""Truth Status"" - Mark Totten and Katharine KellyChapter 6: Complex Needs and Complex Issues: How Responding to Ethnographic Fieldwork Contingencies Shaped a Study of Homelessness - Anne WrightPart 1C: Relating to RespondentsChapter 7: ""I'm Looking Forward to Hearing What You Found Out"": Reflections on a Critical Perspective and Some of Its Consequences - Gillian RansonChapter 8: Conducting Qualitative Research on Emotionally Upsetting Topics: Homicide and Those Left Behind - J. Scott KenneyPart 1D: Writing about Social LifeChapter 9: The Question of ""Whose Truth""?: The Privileging of Participant and Researcher Voices in Qualitative Research - Linda L. SnyderChapter 10: Quote, Unquote: From Transcript to Text in Ethnographic Research - Katherine BischopingPart 2: Ethnography In Process: Case Studies Of Everyday LifePart 2A: Constructing PerspectivesChapter 11: The Process of Caring: Nurses and Genetic Termination - Catherine Chiappetta-SwansonChapter 12: Perceptions of Oncology Professionals' Work: Implications for Informal Carers, Implications for Health Systems - Christina SindingChapter 13: Gendered Experiences of HIV and Complementary Therapy Use - Dorothy Pawluch, Roy Cain, and James GillettChapter 14: Conflict and Abuse in Dating Relationships: Young Adult Women in University React to a Film Clip - Kristin L. Newman, Carmen Poulin, Bette L. Brazier, and Andrea L. CashmoreChapter 15: Ethnographic Insights into the Hacker Subculture - Steven KleinknechtPart 2B: Constructing IdentitiesChapter 16: Smoking and Self: Tobacco Use Effects on Young Women's Constructions of Self and Others - Florence June KellnerChapter 17: Perceptions of Motherhood through the Lens of Adoption - Karen MarchChapter 18: ""This Is Who I Really Am"": Obese Women's Conceptions of Self Following Weight Loss Surgery - Leanne JoanisseChapter 19: Coping with Electoral Defeat: A Study of Involuntary Role Exit - William Shaffir and Steven KleinknechtChapter 20: Avoiding the Other: A Technique of Stigma Management among People Who Use Alternative Therapies - Jacqueline LowPart 2C: Doing and RelatingChapter 21: Negotiated Order and Strategic Inaction in Television Coverage of the Olympics - Josh Greenberg, Graham Knight, Margaret MacNeill, and Peter DonnellyChapter 22: Advancing in the Amateur Chess World - Antony J. PuddephattChapter 23: Singing Out and Making Community: Gay Men and Choral Singing - Roy CainChapter 24: For Better and for Worse: Psychological Demands and Structural Impacts on Gay Servicewomen in the Military and Their Long-Term Partners - Lynne Gouliquer and Carmen PoulinContributors' BiographiesCopyright AcknowledgementsIndex

The Canadian content is particularly interesting and important with regard to this book. The examples shown will relate easily to the life experiences of many Canadian students."" - Tanya Cassidy, University of Windsor