William Thompson, Mica Thompson

Pulling Back the Curtain on Qualitative Research (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

For sociologists, the world is a laboratory, and key research principles and methods inform much of their actions, observations, and worldview. This book provides a practical and personal guide to the essential elements of social research and offers engaging insight through the authors' past fieldwork.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000818246
• Artikelnr.: 66415664

Autorenporträt

William E. Thompson is a professor emeritus of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA. He was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was the first member of his family to receive a high school diploma. He received his bachelor's degree from Northeastern State University, a master's degree from Missouri State University, and a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University. Professor Thompson has authored and co-authored more than 50 articles in professional journals, including several reprinted in sociology textbooks and readers. Thompson also is the author of The Glass House, a nonfiction account of his mother's two-year battle with cancer and in 2012 authored Hogs, Blogs, Leathers, and Lattes: The Sociology of Modern American Motorcycling.

Mica L. Thompson is an adjunct instructor at Texas A&M University Commerce, USA. She was born in Emporia, Kansas, and received her bachelor's degree from Oklahoma State University and her master's degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce. She has 16 years of public-school teaching experience and has co-authored several articles in professional journals as well as several major textbooks in sociology.

Together, Thompson and Thompson have co-authored three major social scientific books: Sociological Wisdom, Society in Focus: An Introduction to Sociology which is in its 9th edition, and Juvenile Delinquency: A Sociological Approach, now in its 11th edition.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Designing and Conducting Qualitative Research
2. Striving for Objective and Unbiased Qualitative Research 3. Visiting the
Old Order Amish in Oklahoma and Kansas: Case Studies 4. Working on a Beef
Slaughter Assembly Line 5. Portraying the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus at a
Shopping Mall 6. Studying Morticians and Funeral Directors 7. Interviewing
Topless Dancers 8. Riding With Modern American Motorcyclists 9. Performing
a Content Analysis of Motorcyclists and the Media 10. Studying Kindergarten
11. Pumping Iron in the 1980s and Working Out in the Twenty-First Century
12. Conducting Qualitative Research in the Age of Disenlightenment
Glossary Bibliography Index