Interpreting the Field by Dick Hobbs
The aim of this book is to demonstrate the importance of qualitative research first through an examination of the data it produces, and second, by using first-hand research accounts of ethnographic work. Topics covered include drug dealing, football hooliganism, entrepreneurial crime, the culture of policing, policing and the miners' strike.
`This is a very important and novel bookIt allows the student to engage in what is otherwise a very dry debate. It is accessible and well-written and very readable.' David Wall, University of Leeds
`This is a very important and novel book. It allows the student to engage in what is otherwise a very dry debate. It is accessible and well written and VERY readable.' David Wall, University of Leeds
`Each essay has a deal to say on the business of doing fieldwork. No doubt the book will become a standard in teaching Research Methods.' Man
`valuable and timely contribution to the growing array of British texts in the area of qualitative research' European Sociological Review
Excellent all round. * Julia Davidson University of Westminister *
`Each essay has a deal to say on the business of doing fieldwork. No doubt the book will become a standard in teaching Research Methods.' MAN
`This is a very important and novel book. It allows the student to engage in what is otherwise a very dry debate. It is accessible and well written and VERY readable.' David Wall, University of Leeds
`Each essay has a deal to say on the business of doing fieldwork. No doubt the book will become a standard in teaching Research Methods.' Man
`valuable and timely contribution to the growing array of British texts in the area of qualitative research' European Sociological Review
Excellent all round. * Julia Davidson University of Westminister *
`Each essay has a deal to say on the business of doing fieldwork. No doubt the book will become a standard in teaching Research Methods.' MAN
Dick Hobbs is a well known sociologist and author of Doing the Business (Clarendon Paperbacks, March 1993), which won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the vest first sociology book by a new author when it was first published in 1988. Tim May previously taught at the University of Durham and has been a researcher at Plymouth Polytechnic and the Centre for Criminological Research, Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198258414 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198258410 |
| Title | Interpreting the Field |
| Author | Dick Hobbs |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1993-12-02 |
| Number of pages | 268 |
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