Ethnography is one of the chief research methods in sociology, anthropology and other cognate disciplines in the social sciences. This book provides an unparalleled, critical guide to its principles and practice. Notes on Contributors ix Editorial Introduction 1(8) PART ONE Introduction to Part One 9(2) The Chicago School of Ethnography 11(15) Mary Jo Deegan Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnography 26(13) Paul Rock Currents of Cultural Fieldwork 39(21) James D. Faubion British Social Anthropology 60(20) Sharon Macdonald Into the Community 80(12) Lodewijk Brunt Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Methods 92(17) Liz Stanley Orientalism 109(9) Julie Marcus Ethnomethodology and Ethnography 118(18) Melvin Pollner Robert M. Emerson Phenomenology and Ethnography 136(9) Ilja Maso Semiotics, Semantics and Ethnography 145(15) Peter K. Manning Grounded Theory in Ethnography 160(17) Kathy Charmaz Richard G. Mitchell PART TWO Introduction to Part Two 175(2) The Ethnography of Health and Medicine 177(11) Michael Bloor Ethnographic Research in Educational Settings 188(16) Tuula Gordon Janet Holland Elina Lahelma Ethnography and the Study of Deviance 204(16) Dick Hobbs Ethnographies of Work and the Work of Ethnographers 220(14) Vicki Smith Ethnography and the Development of Science and Technology Studies 234(12) David Hess Ethnography in the Study of Children and Childhood 246(12) Allison James Ethnography and Material Culture 258(15) Christopher Tilley Ethnography: A Critical Turn in Cultural Studies 273(12) Joost Van Loon The Ethnography of Communication 285(17) Elizabeth Keating Technologies of Realism? Ethnographic Uses of Photography and Film 302(21) Mike Ball Greg Smith PART THREE Introduction to Part Three 321(2) Ethnography as Work: Career Socialization, Settings and Problems 323(16) Christopher Wellin Gary Alan Fine The Ethics of Ethnography 339(13) Elizabeth Murphy Robert Dingwall Participant Observation and Fieldnotes 352(17) Robert M. Emerson Rachel I. Fretz Linda L. Shaw Ethnographic Interviewing 369(15) Barbara Sherman Heyl Narrative Analysis in Ethnography 384(11) Martin Cortazzi The Call of Life Stories in Ethnographic Research 395(12) Ken Plummer Autobiography, Intimacy and Ethnography 407(19) Deborah Reed-Danahay Feminist Ethnography 426(17) Beverley Skeggs Ethnography After Postmodernism 443(10) Jonathan Spencer Computer Applications in Qualitative Research 453(15) Nigel Fielding Ethnodrama: Performed Research -- Limitations and Potential 468(9) Jim Mienczakowski Postmodernism, Post-structuralism and Post(Critical) Ethnography: Of Ruins, Aporias and Angels 477(16) Patti Lather Index 493