Open to Disruption : Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology /

Open to Disruption : Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology /

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"The noted scholars in this collection expose the backstage stories about surprises that disrupted the smooth trajectory of their research. With both dignity and beauty, the collection as a whole evokes the risks, uncertainty, and excitement of innovative social science research"--

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Other Authors: Nelson, Margaret K., 1944- (Editor), Hertz, Rosanna (Editor), Garey, Anita Ilta, 1947- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sociology > Research.
Sociology > Methodology.
Social sciences > Research.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Sciences sociales > Recherche.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On Being Open to Disruption / Margaret K. Nelson and Rosanna Hertz
  • Part I. Changing Subjects, Changing Relationships, Changing Worlds
  • Chapter 1. From a Study to a Journey: Holding an Ethnographic Gaze on Urban Poverty for Two Decades / Timothy Black
  • Chapter 2. Conflicted Selves: Trust and Betrayal in Studying the Hare Krishna / E. Burke Rochford Jr.
  • Chapter 3. Returns / Joanna Dreby
  • Chapter 4. Studying My Hometown / Albert Hunter
  • Chapter 5. Breaching Boundaries and Dowsing for Stories on the Great Plains / Karen V. Hansen
  • Part II. Changing Methods, Changing Frameworks
  • Chapter 6. Disrupting Scholarship / Susan E. Bel
  • Chapter 7. A Sociology of Inclusion and Exclusion through the Lens of the Maid's Daughter / Mary Romero
  • Chapter 8. Getting to the Dark Side of the Moon: Researching the Lives of Women in Cartography / Will C. van den Hoonaar
  • Chapter 9. Getting It Right / Pamela Stone
  • Chapter 10. "Breakfast at Elmo's": Adolescent Boys and Disruptive Politics in the Kinscripts Narrative / Linda M. Burton and Carol B. Stack
  • Part III. Reflections on Disruptions: Time and Craft
  • Chapter 11. History on a Slow Track / Emily K. Abel
  • Chapter 12. A Serendipitous Lesson: Or, How What We Do Shapes What We Know / Margaret K. Nelson
  • Chapter 13. Paying Forward and Paying Back / Rosanna Hertz
  • Chapter 14. Rethinking Families: A Slow Journey / Naomi Gerstel
  • Chapter 15. Time to Find Words / Marjorie L. DeVault
  • Chapter 16. The Days Are Long, but the Years Fly By: Reflections on the Challenges of Doing Qualitative Research / Annette Lareau
  • Contributors.

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