Qualitative Sociology as Everyday Life

by Barry Glassner, Rosanna Hertz

Overview

This insightful volume collects essays from some of the most renowned sociologists working today. They examine the ways that sociological understanding helps them with their daily experiences. These essays reflect the desire to understand experiences in a broader context rather than as random and isolated events - and how the qualitative approach can achieve that end.

Organized around the notion of place - public places, family spaces, interior spaces, and workplaces, the essays touch on the major sub-disciplines within sociology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761913689
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/30/1999
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.22(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Rosanna Hertz is the 1919 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Oxford Press, 2008). She is also the author or co-author of five edited collections which focus on the use of qualitative methods including Open to Disruption: Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology (Vanderbilt University, 2015) with Anita Ilta Garey and Margaret K. Nelson.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: PUBLIC PLACES
Not Even a Day in the Life - Candace West
The Nursing Home - Lillian B Rubin
Essaying the Personal - Sherryl Kleinman
Making Sociological Stories Stick
Enough Already! The Pervasiveness of Warnings in Everyday Life - Shulamit Reinharz
Earn as You Learn - Clinton R Sanders
Connections between Doing Qualitative Work and Living Daily Life
Real Life Sexual Harassment - Christine L Williams
PART TWO: FAMILY SPACES
A Conversation about Parenting - Naomi Gerstel and Robert Zussman
On the (Re)Production of Social Class - Susan E Bell
Living In, With, and Beyond Elementary School
The Personal, the Sociological, and the Intersection of the Two - Lynne Davidman
"Are We Alone?" - Marjorie L De Vault
Five Minutes - Peter K Manning
PART THREE: INTERIOR SPACES
The Pleasure of Slowness - David Silverman
It's Boring - Peter Conrad
Notes on the Meaning of Boredom in Everyday Life
Memory and the Practices of Commitment - Barry Schwartz
Performing Montana - Norman K Denzin
A Personal Passage - Pepper Schwartz
Identity Aquisition and Affinity Groups
Standing on the Threshold and Tripping - Arlene Kaplan Daniels
Awkwardness in Becoming a Field-Worker
My Life with Xena and Billy - Joshua Gamson
PART FOUR: WORKPLACES
Affirmative Action and Me - Sharon M Collins
Making Sense and Making a Difference - Derral Cheatwood
Murder and College Administration
Feeling at Home at Work - Barrie Thorne and Arlie Russell Hochschild
Life in Academic Departments
On the Nonnegotiable in Sociological Life - Robert Dingwall
Is There a Philosopher in the House? - Jonathan D Moreno
The Two Faces of Professional Discretion - Allan Schnaiberg
A Vision from the Client's Bed
Qualitative Sociology and Good Journalism as Demystifiers - Paul M Hirsch
Talks between Teachers - Shirah W Hecht and Howard S Becker

Editorial Reviews

Combining original essays with others from the 20th anniversary issue of (Vol. 4, 1997), this volume features 31 sociologists with diverse interests sharing how their sociological studies inform their "earn as you learn" quotidian experiences and vice versa. Analyses revolve around public places, family spaces, interior spaces, and workplaces. Representative topics from each realm include: ubiquitous warnings ("Enough already!"); (re)production of social class: living beyond elementary school; the pleasures of boredom; and qualitative sociology and good journalism as demystifiers. No index. Paper edition (unseen) $29.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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