Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research illustrated edition Edition

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Fieldwork has often been viewed as a black box, untaught and unteachable. While recent years have seen an increase in the number of practical manuals for doing fieldwork they never fully convey the complexity of the experience: the loneliness, the uncertainty, the moral dilemmas and the ambiguities. In Experiencing Fieldwork top ethnographers address various issues of the fieldwork experience. How do you gain entry into the setting? What tricks are there to learning the rules of the community without alienating the people you came to study? How are good relations maintained with informants? What happens after you leave the field? Using examples of research from police departments to schools, from nursing homes to motorcycle gangs, the contributors make the process of fieldwork come alive for the reader and provide invaluable advice for those entering the field.