A human face on the realities of professional football, from the challenges players face after leaving the NFL to the factors that can enable them to continue to find success 2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Is There Life After Football?draws upon the experiences of hundreds of former players as they ......
In January 2014, President Barack Obama made headlines when he confided to New Yorker reporter Davis Remnick that, if he had a son, he would discourage him from playing in the NFL. This book draws upon the experiences of hundreds of former players as they describe their lives after their football days are over.
The new edition of this landmark volume emphasizes the dynamic, interactional and reflexive dimensions of the research interview. Contributors highlight the myriad dimensions of complexity that are emerging as researchers increasingly frame the interview as a communicative opportunity as much as a data-gathering format. The book begins with the history and conceptual transformations of the interview, which is followed by chapters that discuss the main components of interview practice. Taken together, the contributions to the Handbook encourage readers simultaneously to learn the frameworks and technologies of interviewing and to reflect on the epistemological foundations of the interview craft.
Narrative research has become increasingly popular in the social sciences. While no part of the process is easy, researchers often struggle to make sense of data that can seem chaotic and without a discernible pattern. Varieties of Narrative Analysis shows how to analyze stories, storytelling, and stories in society, bringing together a variety of approaches to both texts and narrative practice under one cover.
Postmodern Interviewing offers readers an exploration of the postmodern interview, a conversation with diverse purposes in which the communicative format is constructed as much within the interview conversation as it stems from predesignated research interests. Postmodern Interviewing provides cutting edge discussions of new horizons in ......
Narrative Ethnography expands the focus of narrative analysis to the broader realm of what is called narrative practice. Typically, contemporary narrative analysis focuses on the internal organization of stories. Authors Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein take up a new, yet related, topic: the social organization of narrative practice. Specifically, they argue that researchers must begin to systematically consider the contexts, circumstances, and resources that shape the production of narratives. The authors provide both the analytic and procedural dimensions of narrative ethnography. The title and term onarrative ethnographyo already is directive and the authors have been developing this vocabulary for decades. Other analytic terms form the basis for chapters and sections of the book: narrative horizons, narrative linkage, narrative editing, narrative space, narrative exposure, narrative control, narrative authenticity, and narrative embeddedness, among others. The book is organized into three sections. The introductory chapters of Part I develop in detail the rationale for, and historical background of, narrative ethnography.Part II focuses on various sensitizing concepts, their procedural contours, and related illustrative material. Part III is comprised of summary chapters that take up broader representational and explanatory issues, such as how to approach the study of narrative practice in relation to the challenges of postmodern, global, and postcolonial perspectives. Narrative Ethnography can be used as a main text in graduate research methods courses across the social sciences and human service professions in which ethnographic and narrative practice are emphasized.
Reviews the foundations of constructionist research, how it is put into practice in multiple disciplines, and where it may be headed in the future. This book examines the analytic frameworks, strategies of inquiry, and methodological choices.
Interview books typically stress the need for establishing rapport with respondents and asking questions that don't influence the responses. Until now, no text has seriously explored who the subjects are behind interview participants. Inside Interviewing showcases the fluctuating and diverse moral worlds put into place during interview ......
Interviews were once thought to be the pipeline through which information was transmitted from a passive subject to an omniscient researcher. However the new `active interview' considers interviewers and interviewees as equal partners in constructing meaning around an interview. This interpretation changes a range of elements in the interview process - from the way of conceiving a sample to the ways in which the interview may be conducted and the results analyzed. In this guide, the authors outline the differences between active interviews and traditional interviews and give novice researchers clear guidelines on conducting a successful interview.
