ISBN:
9780803970366
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (223 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
SAGE Focus Editions
Parallel Title:
Print version Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods
DDC:
305.5
Keywords:
Elite (Social sciences)
;
Power (Social sciences)
;
Social classes
;
Prestige
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The very nature of elites makes them difficult for social researchers to study. This volume provides valuable insights into how researchers can successfully gain access to elite settings. Using their actual experiences, the contributors provide constructive advice as well as cautionary tales about how they learned to manoeuvre and become accepted in worlds otherwise closed to them. Three broad research areas are covered: business elites; professional elites; and community and political elites. Useful information is given on how researchers in these areas can gather data, construct interview
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I - Business Elites; Chapter 1 - Interviewing Important People in Big Companies; Chapter 2 - Reaching Corporate Executives; Chapter 3 - Fielding Hot Topics in Cool Settings: The Study of Corporate Ethics; Chapter 4 - Using Electronic Media to Support Fieldwork in a Corporate Setting; Chapter 5 - Tales from the Field: Learning from Researchers' Accounts; Part ll - Professional Elites; Chapter 6 - Stopping the Spin and Becoming a Prop: Fieldwork on Hollywood Elites
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7 - Reflections on Fieldwork in a Complex Organization: Lawyers, Ethnographic Authority, and Lethal WeaponsChapter 8 - Negotiating Status: Social Scientists and Anglican Clergy; Chapter 9 - How I Learned What a Crock Was; Part III - Community and Political Elites; Chapter 10 - ""Surely You're Not in This Just to be Helpful"": Access, Rapport, and Interviews in Three Studies of Elites; Chapter 11 - Local Knowledge and Local Power: Notes on the Ethnography of Local Community Elites; Chapter 12 - Research as a Communication Act: A Study on Israeli Women in Local Politics
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 13 - Exploding Anthropology's Canon in the World of the Bomb: Ethnographic Writing on MilitarismAbout the Contributors
Note:
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