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Method in the madness : research stories you won't find in textbooks / edited by Keith Townsend and John Burgess.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Chandos, 2009Description: xxvii, 214 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1843344947
  • 9781843344940
  • 1843344939
  • 9781843344933
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.4 22
LOC classification:
  • H62 .M4246 2009
Contents:
1. Serendipity and flexibility in social science research: meeting the unexpected / Keith Townsend and John Burgess -- Part 1. Living the Research -- 2. There are ways and then there are ways: conducting research in social settings in Japan / Kaye Broadbent -- Minamoto san's so-betsukai / farewell party -- 3. 'On the mop-floor': researching employment relations in the hidden world of commercial cleaning / Shaun Ryan -- 4. Drinking with Dessie: research, mines and life in the Pilbara / Bradon Ellem -- Part 2. Access for Research -- 5. Combating information suspicion: Guinness, sports and glassblowing / Paul Ryan and Tony Dundon -- 6. What lies beneath: the pleasures, pain and possibilities of focus groups / Barbara Pocock, Jane Clarke, Philippa Williams and Ken Bridge -- Part 3. Interviews As a Method -- 7. Looking through the haze of discontent: smokers as a data source / Robin Price and Keith Townsend -- 8. Interviewing men: reading more than the transcripts / Barbara Pini -- 9. Establishing rapport: using quantitative and qualitative methods in tandem / Alan Felstead, Nick Jewson, Alison Fuller, Konstantinos Kakavelakis and Lorna Unwin -- 10. Wrong way, go back! Negotiating access in industry-based research / Paula McDonald, Keith Townsend and Jennifer Waterhouse -- 11. A sporting chance: workplace ethnographies, ethics protocols and playing by the rules / Jennifer Sappey -- Part 4. Preparing and Responding Throughout the Project -- 12. Sitting on a wall in Northumberland crying: semi-structured interviews / Vikki Abusidualghoul, John Goodwin, Nalita James, Al Rainnie, Katharine Venter and Melissa White -- 13. Researching train-based working / Donald Hislop -- 14. A story about being engaged in research: buzzing bees, small business and Australian unfair dismissal laws / Rowena Barrett -- 15. Lessons learnt from this madness / Jennifer Sappey, Keith Townsend and John Burgess.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Serendipity and flexibility in social science research: meeting the unexpected / Keith Townsend and John Burgess -- Part 1. Living the Research -- 2. There are ways and then there are ways: conducting research in social settings in Japan / Kaye Broadbent -- Minamoto san's so-betsukai / farewell party -- 3. 'On the mop-floor': researching employment relations in the hidden world of commercial cleaning / Shaun Ryan -- 4. Drinking with Dessie: research, mines and life in the Pilbara / Bradon Ellem -- Part 2. Access for Research -- 5. Combating information suspicion: Guinness, sports and glassblowing / Paul Ryan and Tony Dundon -- 6. What lies beneath: the pleasures, pain and possibilities of focus groups / Barbara Pocock, Jane Clarke, Philippa Williams and Ken Bridge -- Part 3. Interviews As a Method -- 7. Looking through the haze of discontent: smokers as a data source / Robin Price and Keith Townsend -- 8. Interviewing men: reading more than the transcripts / Barbara Pini -- 9. Establishing rapport: using quantitative and qualitative methods in tandem / Alan Felstead, Nick Jewson, Alison Fuller, Konstantinos Kakavelakis and Lorna Unwin -- 10. Wrong way, go back! Negotiating access in industry-based research / Paula McDonald, Keith Townsend and Jennifer Waterhouse -- 11. A sporting chance: workplace ethnographies, ethics protocols and playing by the rules / Jennifer Sappey -- Part 4. Preparing and Responding Throughout the Project -- 12. Sitting on a wall in Northumberland crying: semi-structured interviews / Vikki Abusidualghoul, John Goodwin, Nalita James, Al Rainnie, Katharine Venter and Melissa White -- 13. Researching train-based working / Donald Hislop -- 14. A story about being engaged in research: buzzing bees, small business and Australian unfair dismissal laws / Rowena Barrett -- 15. Lessons learnt from this madness / Jennifer Sappey, Keith Townsend and John Burgess.

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