The SAGE Handbook of Fieldwork

Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology. He worked in a number of manual and clerical jobs before training as a schoolteacher and working in London schools. He undertook postgraduate work at the LSE and the University of Surrey, and worked at the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford, and briefly at the Polytechnic of Central London, before taking up a post at Durham University in 1990 where he worked in both the Sociology and Law Departments. He joined the LSE in September 2005.His interests focus on ethnographic work, working class entrepreneurship, the sociology of deviance, professional and organized crime, violence, drug markets, and the night-time economy. Dick Hobbs is currently working on a book looking at the sociology of organized crime in the UK.  He is also working on a 4 volume edited collection on ethnography, and a collaborative book on the policing and security implications of the 2012 Olympics. Richard Wright is Curators′ Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies [Criminology]. He has been studying active urban street criminals, especially residential burglars, armed robbers, carjackers, and drug dealers for twenty-plus years. He is the author or co-author of five books and seventy scholarly articles and book chapters, including Armed Robbers in Action and Burglars on the Job, which won the 1994-95 Outstanding Scholarship in Crime and Delinquency Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. In addition, he has written widely for the popular press, locally, nationally, and internationally. He has appeared on numerous nationally broadcast TV news programs in the US and Great Britain, and he has been interviewed twice on NPR′s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Icelandic Research Council, National Consortium on Violence Research, and Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

• PART ONE: LOCATING FIELDWORKThe Fieldwork Tradition - George J McCallPraxical Reasoning and the Logic of Field Research - Gary ShankPART TWO: SITUATING FIELDWORKJelly′s Place - Elijah AndersonAn Ethnographic MemoirYour Place or Mine - Michael SteinThe Geography of Social ResearchPART THREE: SITUATING THE RESPONDENTSFieldwork with the Elite - Mary Dodge and Gilbert GeisInterviewing White-Collar CriminalsEntering the Field - C H Browner and H Mabel PreloranRecruiting Latinos for Ethnographic ResearchPART FOUR: FIELDWORK AS A REFLEXIVE ENTERPRISESelf-Narratives and Ethnographic Fieldwork - Ben Crewe and Shadd Maruna`You Don′t Do Fieldwork, Fieldwork Does You′ - Bob SimpsonBetween Subjectivation and Objectivation in Anthropological FieldworkPART FIVE: THE FIELD OF EMOTIONAural Sex - Christine MattleyThe Politics and Moral Dilemmas of Studying the Social Construction of FantasyThe Case for Dangerous Fieldwork - Bruce JacobsPART FIVE: FIELDWORK AND SEXUALITIESFieldwork on Urban Male Homosexuality in Mexico - Joseph CarrierKnowing Sexuality - Chris Haywood and Mairtin Mac an GhaillEpistemologies of ResearchResearching Sex Work - Teela SandersDynamics, Difficulties and DecisionsPART SEVEN: EMBODIMENT AND IDENTITYFieldwork and the Body - Lee F MonaghanReflections on an Embodied EthnographySport Ethnography - Susan BrownellA Personal AccountHidden Identities and Personal Stories - Jennifer HargreavesInternational Research About Women in SportPART EIGHT: FIELDWORK IN ORGANIZATIONSPolicework and Fieldwork - Nigel FieldingAn Ethnographer′s Tale - Robert G BurgessA Personal View of Educational EthnogrpahyPART NINE: FIELDWORK, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYSoftware and Fieldwork - Susanne FrieseSeeking Science in the Field - Steve FullerLife Beyond the LaboratoryPART TEN: LOCATING FRESH FIELDSPostmodern Fieldwork in Health Research - Nick J FoxFieldwork in Transition - Peter Kirby Manning

`While aimed at students and new researchers, even an experienced fieldworker can find inspiration in this volume.′ - The Journal of the Royal Anthropoogical Institute ′...Peter Manning′s important contribution locates the transitions that have occurred in ethnography at the turn of the 21st century, juxtaposed against studies of organized crime. Nick Fox creatively situates postmodern fieldwork within the context of medical sociology.′ - Qualitative Research Journal ′The book will be particularly valuable for students or those approaching fieldwork for the first time. It provides a useful overview of current issues and debates for those familiar with fieldwork methods.′ - Field Methods Journal