Approaches to Fieldwork

Sam Hillyard is a Reader in Sociology at Durham in the United Kingdom. She is the series editor of Studies in Qualitative Methodology (Emerald) and a member of the editorial board for the journal Qualitative Research. Her research interests lie with the synergies between theoretical ideas and empirical ethnographic research. This interest has been applied across a variety of research settings: Recent projects include game shooting in the UK and access to elite higher education. These interests are reflected in a series of funding awards from the ESRC, the Rural Economy and Land Use programme (ESRC, NERC, and BBSRC), and Natural Resources Wales. Her books include Doing Fieldwork with Professor Pole (2016) and Approaches to Fieldwork, a four-volume collection (2014).

VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL IDEAS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE FIELDWORK TRADITION Articulating Theory, Practice and Objectivity in the Ethnography of Education as a Community of Practice - Dennis Beach The Public and Private in C. Wright Mills's Life and Work - John Brewer Village on the Border, Anthropology at the Crossroads: The Significance of a Classic British Ethnography - Anthony Cohen The Methodological Impact of Feminism: A Troubling Issue for Sociology? - Rachel Lara Cohen, Christina Hughes and Richard Lampard The Only Honest Thing: Autoethnography, Reflexivity and Small Crises in Fieldwork - Sara Delamont Searching for Realism, Structure and Agency in Actor Network Theory - Dave Elder-Vass The Sad Demise, Mysterious Disappearance, and Glorious Triumph of Symbolic Internationalism - Gary Fine Towards a Peopled Ethnography: Developing Theory from Group Life - Gary Fine On Fieldwork - Erving Goffman Qualitative Inquiry: Where Are the Ruins? - Maggie MacLure Lifelong Learning to Labour: Apprenticeship, Masculinity and Communities of Practice - Andrew Parker Some Problems of Interpretative Historiography - Paul Rock The Life Histories of W. I. Thomas and Robert E. Park - Paul Baker Institutional Ethnography and Actor-Network Theory: A Framework for Researching the Assessment of Trainee Teachers - Jonathan Tummons The Geography of Disciplinary Amnesia: Eleven Scholars Reflect on the International State of Symbolic Interactionism - Phillip Vannini VOLUME TWO: TECHNIQUE AND TECHNOLOGIES The Importance of Being a 'Lady': Hyper-Femininity and Heterosexuality in the Private, Single-Sex Primary School - Alexandra Allan Charting the Ludodrome: The Mediation of Urban and Simulated Space and Rise of the Flaneur Electronique - Rowland Atkinson and Paul Willis Why Are Social Scientists Still Reluctant to Embrace Email as Data? An Ethnographic Examination of Interactions within Virtual Teams - Yee Wei (Carol) Au and Abigail Marks "Either Side of Delphy Bridge": A Deep Mapping Project Evoking and Engaging the Lives of Older Adults in Rural North Cornwall - Jane Bailey and Iain Biggs From Co-location to Co-presence: Shifts in the Use of Ethnography for the Study of Knowledge - Anne Beaulieu How I Learned What a Crock Was - Howard Becker Photo-Elicitation and the Agricultural Landscape: 'Seeing' and 'Telling' about Farming, Community and Place - Ruth Beilin Back to the Shed: Gendered Visions of Technology and Domesticity - Genevieve Bell and Paul Dourish Animating Suspension: Waiting for Mobilities - David Bissell Childern, Mobility and Space: Using GPS and Mobile Phone Technologies in Ethnographic Research - Pia Christensen, Miguel R. Mikkelsen, Thomas Alexander, Sick Nielsen and Henrik Harder Framing Rural Fashion: Observations from Badminton Horse Trials - Alison Goodrum and Kevin Hunt Digital Futures? Sociological Challenges and Opportunities in the Emergent Semantic Web - Susan Halford, Catherine Pope and Mark Weal Knowing the City: Maps, Mobility and Urban Outreach Work - Tom Hall and Robin Smith Using Internet Technologies (Such As Skype) as a Research Medium: A Research Note - Paul Hanna Talking about Pictures: A Case for Photo Elicitation - Douglas Harper Life Stories and Social Careers: Ageing and Social Life in an Ex-Mining Town - Robin Humphrey The Power of Corridors: Connecting Doors, Mobilising Materials, Plotting Openness - Rachel Hurdley Recording Technologies and the Interview in Sociology, 1920-2000 - Raymond Lee Fishmongers in a Global Economy: Craft and Social Relations on a London Market - Dawn Lyon and Les Back An Ethics of Intimacy: Online Dating, Viral-Sociality and Living with HIV - Fadhila Mazanderani Cementing Relations within a Sporting Field: Fell Running in the English Lake District and the Acquisition of Existential Capital - Sarah Nettleton Walking, Sensing, Belonging: Ethno-Mimesis as Performative Praxis - Maggie O'Neill and Phil Hubbard Being There, Teleography and the Wire - Martin Parker An Urban Tour; The Sensory Sociality of Ethnographic Place-Making - Sarah Pink New Avenues for Sociological Inquiry: Evolving Forms of Ethnographic Practice - Laura Robinson and Jeremy Schulz The Postmodern Ethnographic Flaneur and the Study of Hyper-Mediated Everyday Life - Charles Soukup VOLUME THREE: THE PURPOSE, TASK AND AMBITIONS OF FIELDWORK Qualitative Research- Unity and Diversity - Paul Atkinson "The second Banbury Study", Colin Bell Interviewed by Paul Thompson - Paul Thompson Emotion and Place Promotion: Passionate about a Former Coalfield - Katy Bennett Exaggerated Femininity and Tortured Masculinity: Embodying Gender in the Horseracing Industry - Deborah Butler and Nickie Charles (Net)Working Out: Social Capital in Private Health Club - Nick Crossley Going Back to Re-Study Communities: Challenges and Opportunities - Graham Crow The Smell of Sweat and Rum: Teacher Authority in Capoeira Classes - Sara Delamont Four Days in a Strange Place - Locus Congressi Mundane Mobilities, Performance and Spaces of Tourism - Tim Edensor Consumption Styles and the Fluid Complexity of Punk Authenticity - William Force Notes from the Sports Club: Confessional Tales of Two Researchers - Darla Fortune and Heather Mair Ethnography in Evolution: Adapting to the Animal "Other" in Organizations - Lindsay Hamilton and Nick Taylor Anthropology, Class and the 'Big Heads': An Ethnography of Distinctions between 'Rough' and 'Posh' amongst Women Workers in the UK Pottery Industry - Elizabeth Hart Seeking the Analytic Imagination: Reflections on the Process of Interpreting Qualitative Data - Allison James Constructing the Sick Child: The Cultural Politics of Children's Hospitals - Allison James and Penny Curtis If No Means No, Does Yes Mean Yes? Consenting to Research Intimacies - Julia O'Connell Davidson You Are What You Research: A Researcher Partisanship and the Sociology of the Underdog - Karen Lumsden Ethnographic Returning, Qualitative Longitudinal Research and the Reflective Analysis of Social Practice - Karen O'Reilly Close But Not Too Close: Friendship as Method(ology) in Ethnographic Research Encounters - Helen Owten and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson Everyday Risks and Professional Dilemmas: Fieldwork with Alcohol-based (Sporting) Subcultures - Catherine Palmer and Kirrilly Thompson How to Look Good (Nearly) Naked: The Performative Regulation of the Swimmer's Body - Susie Scott Goffman's Interaction Order at the Margins: Stigma, Role, and Normalization in the Outreach Encounter - Robin Smith Uncovering a Hidden "I" in Contemporary Urban Ethnography - Alford Young, Jr VOLUME FOUR: OUTCOMES: STYLE, QUALITY AND IMPACT Introduction: What Is the Empirical? - Lisa Adkins and Celia Lury The Globalization of Qualitative Research - Pertti Alasuutari The Mastersingers: Language and Practice in an Operatic Masterclass - Paul Atkinson Identifying and Comparing Scandinavian Ethnography: Comparisons and Influences - Dennis Beach For Public Sociology - Michael Burawoy Half-Remembrance of Things Past: Critics and Cuts of Old - John Eldridge On the Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto - Alice Goffman On Becker's Studies of Marijuana Use as an Example of Analytic Induction - Martyn Hammersley Local Knowledge and Local Power: Notes on the Ethnography of Local Community Elites - Albert Hunter The New Mobilities Paradigm - Mimi Sheller and John Urry Seeing Differently: Ethnography and Explanatory Power - Beverley Skeggs Novel Ethnographic Representations and the Dilemmas of Judgement - Andrew Sparkes New Methods, Old Problems: A Sceptical View of Innovation in Qualitative Research - Max Travers De-Intellectualizing American Sociology: A History, of Sorts - Stephen Turner Questioning Research with Children: Discrepancy between Theory and Practice? - Emma Uprichard Popularizing Ethnography: Reflections on Writing for Popular Audiences in Magazines and Blogs - Phillip Vannini Scrutinizing the Street: Poverty, Morality, and the pitfalls of Urban Ethnography - Loic Wacquant The Curious Eclipse of Prison Ethnography in the Age of Mass Incarceration - Loic Wacquant Innovation in Qualitative Research Methods: A Narrative Review - Rose Wiles, Graham Crow and Helen Pain