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Listening to people : a practical guide to interviewing, participant observation, data analysis, and writing it all up / Annette Lareau.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishingPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2021]Description: 325 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226806570
  • 022680657X
  • 9780226806433
  • 022680643X
Other title:
  • Practical guide to interviewing, participant observation, data analysis, and writing it all up
  • Guide to interviewing, participant observation, data analysis, and writing it all up
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.072 23
LOC classification:
  • HM517 .L37 2021
NLM classification:
  • HM517
Contents:
1. Introduction: The emergent nature of the research process -- 2. Before you begin : dreaming and thinking -- 3. Preparing : the early steps in a study -- 4. Learning to interview : what to do before and after the interview -- 5. How to conduct a good interview : dig deep -- 6. Learning to do participant observation : a practical guide -- 7. Writing high-quality field notes : details matter -- 8. Data analysis : thinking as you go -- 9. Writing : becoming clearer about your contribution -- 10. Conclusion: Why interviews and participant observation research are valuable -- Final words -- Appendix to Chapter 3: Navigating the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects : or, How to manage the IRB process.
Summary: "Sociologist of education Annette Lareau is renowned in her field for her compassionate ethnographic work and the insightful ideas she's able to draw from it. With Listening to People, she has given us an extremely practical guide to doing the kind of work she has been celebrated for. Lareau covers just about everything a social scientist needs to know--formulating a topic and honing it down to a good research question, obtaining IRB approval, finding a site and making introductions, conducting high-quality interviews and participant--observation, taking good notes and writing them up later, analyzing the data, and best of all, making clear how much the data analysis and the writing are part of the same process. Her tone throughout is about as straightforward as it gets, and she very generously shares stories of her own mistakes, missteps, and anxieties. Written for students and scholars in sociology, education, communications, social work, and possibly political science, anthropology, and related fields, the book will be an indispensable guide for graduate students and faculty in the social sciences (broadly conceived), and is even suitable for undergraduates"-- Provided by publisher.
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Qualitative Research Methods


Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index.

1. Introduction: The emergent nature of the research process -- 2. Before you begin : dreaming and thinking -- 3. Preparing : the early steps in a study -- 4. Learning to interview : what to do before and after the interview -- 5. How to conduct a good interview : dig deep -- 6. Learning to do participant observation : a practical guide -- 7. Writing high-quality field notes : details matter -- 8. Data analysis : thinking as you go -- 9. Writing : becoming clearer about your contribution -- 10. Conclusion: Why interviews and participant observation research are valuable -- Final words -- Appendix to Chapter 3: Navigating the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects : or, How to manage the IRB process.

"Sociologist of education Annette Lareau is renowned in her field for her compassionate ethnographic work and the insightful ideas she's able to draw from it. With Listening to People, she has given us an extremely practical guide to doing the kind of work she has been celebrated for. Lareau covers just about everything a social scientist needs to know--formulating a topic and honing it down to a good research question, obtaining IRB approval, finding a site and making introductions, conducting high-quality interviews and participant--observation, taking good notes and writing them up later, analyzing the data, and best of all, making clear how much the data analysis and the writing are part of the same process. Her tone throughout is about as straightforward as it gets, and she very generously shares stories of her own mistakes, missteps, and anxieties. Written for students and scholars in sociology, education, communications, social work, and possibly political science, anthropology, and related fields, the book will be an indispensable guide for graduate students and faculty in the social sciences (broadly conceived), and is even suitable for undergraduates"-- Provided by publisher.

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