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Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative Observation and Analysis 4th Edition

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This comprehensive guide takes a 'how-to' approach to qualitative data collection and analysis. Drawing from a wealth of illustrative research examples and applications, the authors introduce techniques of collecting, focusing, and analyzing data in a step-by-step manner. First published in 1971, this book has become the field manual for any student doing social science fieldwork.

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9780534528614
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978-0534528614
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4th
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Wadsworth Publishing
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August 18, 2005
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English
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6 x 0.25 x 8.75 inches
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0534528619
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wadsworth Publishing; 4th edition (August 18, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780534528614
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0534528614
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.25 x 8.75 inches

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Leon Anderson is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Ohio University and Utah State University. He is best known for scholarship on qualitative research, homelessness, social deviance, and autoethnography. Before pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology, Leon worked with Alaska Native youth and wrote for the Anchorage Daily News, receiving Alaska State Press Club awards for stories on the king crab fishery in the Aleutian Islands and tundra firefighting above the Arctic Circle. Leon and his mentor, David Snow, published their award-winning study of homelessness, Down on Their Luck, in 1993. In 2006 they teamed up again for a major revision of John and Lyn Lofland’s classic qualitative methods text, Analyzing Social Settings. That year Leon also published an influential article “Analytic Autoethnography,” that has been cited in books and articles over 3,000 times. His most recent book, Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries, came out in 2017. Leon’s writings have been published in numerous languages, including a Portuguese translation of Down on Their Luck and Polish translation of Analyzing Social Settings. While continuing to write on deviance and qualitative research, Leon is currently completing a memoir on the summer of 1968 when he hopped freight trains from Seattle to Chicago to protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with his wife Kate and their border collie, Velcro.
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amj

Good guide to the process

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I found it to be a good guide to learn the process of basics of qualitative observation and analysis. It is best paired with a quality book on interviewing as well.

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As far as textbooks go...

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This book isn't that bad (as far as textbooks go). It's not a thrilling read, but it does a great job of presenting information about qualitative research.

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Roger

Good book, a little dry to read

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I had to read this book for a college class. It is informative, buy a little dry to read. Would buy again.

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School required- it was an OK read

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This book makes learning how to do qualitative analysis interesting an engaging. Unlike other textbooks that tend to get lost in their own research methods this one is accessible, educational, and entertaining.

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Good info

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Needed for my ethnography course

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I love it.

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Mr Joe

I have never thought of some of these issues before

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This book was required in one of my classes. It brought up issues related to those tied to a University and those for Ethnographers that are independent. It was worth the read for the background information alone.

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San Patch

Qualitative social science made accessible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 30, 2013

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As a doctoral researcher new to qualitative research, I bought this book in order to understand the process of conducting high-quality qualitative research. How do I start? How to I choose empirical sites? How do I generate interesting theory? How do I producing compelling reports? Thankfully, Lofland and colleagues deliver. I am glad I bought the book.

The book is divided into three parts, which correspond roughly to the process of doing qualitative research: (1) gathering data; (2) focusing data; and (3) analysing data. In part 1 (gathering data), the authors advise researchers to conduct qualitative research that engages them personally, and in empirical contexts that are relatively accessible to them. This piece of advice has considerable merit because gaining access to research sites like organisations, communities, communes etc can be quite demanding. Furthermore, qualitative research can be demanding as the researcher is fully immersed in the empirical setting. Hence, researching an engaging subject appears to be eminently sensible.

Part two of the book is perhaps the best part of the book. The authors demonstrate their grasp of the vast body of work in qualitative sociology research. They take the reader through a detailed process of thinking about the data, asking questions of the data, and framing the research finding so that it is 'interesting' to other researchers. In Part 3, the authors provide structured guidance on writing propositions, coding, memoing, diagramming and writing up the analysis.

'Analyzing social Settings' is written for researchers conducting inductive, theory building/testing/extension research. The book is very-well structured; furthermore, its authors are well grounded in the sociological research tradition and illustrate the concepts using examples from sociology, political science, management science and even economics. The book is pitched at the appropriate level of abstraction for inexperienced as well as experienced qualitative researchers. It (the book) will be sitting in my reference book shelf as I complete my doctoral thesis.

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Difficult to deal with

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The book arrived in good shape. However I found out before it arrived that I didn't need to take the course and asked to return it. ms. shortcakes response was no because she was going to be out of the country therefore it wouldn't recieve it back to relist it for the spring session.(the course i was signed up for starts in july at laurier) No sure why that became my problem. Amazon contacted her and I was told to send it to her. She then responded by saying that she hadn't recieved it in the alloted time therefore cannot accept the return. Amazon is looking it to it.
Had she not have been difficult to begin with she would have had the book weeks ago just like BookMob (who was not difficult and the return was proceeded a couple of weeks ago)

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