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 FIELDWORK The Fieldwork Tradition - George J McCall Praxical Reasoning and the Logic of Field Research - Gary Shank PART TWO: SITUATING FIELDWORK Jelly's Place - Elijah Anderson An Ethnographic Memoir Your Place or Mine - Michael Stein The Geography of Social Research PART THREE: SITUATING THE RESPONDENTS Fieldwork with the Elite - Mary Dodge and Gilbert Geis Interviewing White-Collar Criminals Entering the Field - C H Browner and H Mabel Preloran Recruiting Latinos for Ethnographic Research PART FOUR: FIELDWORK AS A REFLEXIVE ENTERPRISE Self-Narratives and Ethnographic Fieldwork - Ben Crewe and Shadd Maruna `You Don't Do Fieldwork, Fieldwork Does You' - Bob Simpson Between Subjectivation and Objectivation in Anthropological Fieldwork PART FIVE: THE FIELD OF EMOTION Aural Sex - Christine Mattley The Politics and Moral Dilemmas of Studying the Social Construction of Fantasy The Case for Dangerous Fieldwork - Bruce Jacobs PART FIVE: FIELDWORK AND SEXUALITIES Fieldwork on Urban Male Homosexuality in Mexico - Joseph Carrier Knowing Sexuality - Chris Haywood and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill Epistemologies of Research Researching Sex Work - Teela Sanders Dynamics, Difficulties and Decisions PART SEVEN: EMBODIMENT AND IDENTITY Fieldwork and the Body - Lee F Monaghan Reflections on an Embodied Ethnography Sport Ethnography - Susan Brownell A Personal Account Hidden Identities and Personal Stories - Jennifer Hargreaves International Research About Women in Sport PART EIGHT: FIELDWORK IN ORGANIZATIONS Policework and Fieldwork - Nigel Fielding An Ethnographer's Tale - Robert G Burgess A Personal View of Educational Ethnogrpahy PART NINE: FIELDWORK, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Software and Fieldwork - Susanne Friese Seeking Science in the Field - Steve Fuller Life Beyond the Laboratory PART TEN: LOCATING FRESH FIELDS Postmodern Fieldwork in Health Research - Nick J Fox Fieldwork 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