Ethnographic Research

Stephanie Taylor is a senior lecturer in Social Psychology at the Open University, UK. Her research investigates a complex gendered subject and contemporary identification, including identities of creativity and work. She has also written extensively on discourse analysis and qualitative research. Her books include What Is Discourse Analysis? (Bloomsbury, 2013), Contemporary Identities of Creativity and Creative Work, with Karen Littleton (Ashgate, 2012), and Narratives of Identity and Place (Routledge, 2010). She is a coeditor, with Susan Luckman, of the 2018 Palgrave Macmillan collection The New Normal of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment. She is originally from New Zealand and now lives in the UK.

• Researching the Social - Stephanie TaylorAn Introduction to the Ethnographic ResearchPART ONE: AT SOCIETY′S MARGINSRespect at Work - Philippe Bourgois`Going Legit′Policing and Public Health - Lisa Maher and David DixonLaw Enforcement and Harm Minimization in a Street-Level Drug MarketPART TWO: GENDERED IDENTITIES`Not as Nice as She Was Supposed to Be′ - Valerie HeySchoolgirls′ Friendships`One of the Boys′ - Claire E AlexanderBlack Masculinity and the Peer Group PART THREE: WORKPLACE PRACTICESManufacturing Sexual Subjects - Leslie Salzinger`Harassment′, Desire and Discipline on a Maquiladora ShopfloorDistributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit - Edwin Hutchins and Tove KlausenPART FOUR: THE CONSUMPTION OF CULTURAL PRODUCTSTourists at the Taj - Tim EdensorWalking and GazingThe Global, the Local and the Hybrid - Marwan M KraidyA Native Ethnography of GlobalizationPART FIVE: WORKING TO PROVIDE MEDICAL SERVICESHumour as Resistance to Professional Dominance in Community Health Teams - Lesley GriffithsOpenness and Specialization - Nicolas Dodier and Agn[gr]es CamusDealing with Patients in a Hospital Emergency Service

`A clear demonstration of a range of ethnographic research techniques that offer a profound understanding of the subjects of the investigations and will undoubtedly stimulate many considering some form of research to assess carefully the advantages of ethnographic techniques for use in their own work′ - Evaluation and Research in Education