| Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods Contributor(s): Hertz, Rosanna (Editor), Imber, Jonathan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0803970374 ISBN-13: 9780803970373 Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc OUR PRICE: $122.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1995 Annotation: Few social researchers study elites because elites, by their nature, are very difficult to access. The contributors to this volume provide valuable insights on how researchers can successfully penetrate elite settings. As the authors reflect on their experiences, they provide constructive advice as well as cautionary tales about how they learned to maneuver and become accepted in a world that is often closed to them. This book's coverage includes three broad research domains: business elites, professional elites, and community and political elites. Although the studies focus on qualitative methodology, even researchers who emphasize more quantitative methods will benefit from this volume's thoughtful observations on how researchers gather data, construct interview strategies, write about their subjects, and experience the research process. A wide range of researchers in organizational studies, sociology, political science, and many other fields will find this volume to be an important guide to the many subtle and elusive features of conducting successful research with these groups. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Research - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 305.52 |
| LCCN: 95002836 |
| Series: Sage Focus Editions (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.58" W x 8.52" (0.65 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 strategies, write about their subjects and come to experience the research process. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hertz, Rosanna: - 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. |