Extreme Methods

by Miller, J. Mitchell; Tewksbury, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780321054876
• ISBN10: 0321054873
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This unusual text explores little-known aspects of social science research with readings that focus on dangerous approaches to conducting research. In this collection of readings, students are introduced, through real research examples, to the real way that research is conducted. Whereas teaching and studying research methods can often be a rather dry and cumbersome task, Extreme Methods provides students with interesting and challenging issues and ideas.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
SECTION 1 Beyond Convention: Extreme Methods of Fieldwork	1	(54)
Acting Like an Insider: Studying Hidden Environments as a Potential Participant	4	(9)
Richard Tewksbury
Covert Participant Observation: Reconsidering the Least Used Method	13	(8)
J. Mitchell Miller
Covert Participant Observation: On Its Nature and Practice	21	(14)
Richard A. Hilbert
Doing Research in Prison: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Full Participation as a Guard	35	(13)
James W. Marquart
Comparison of Self-Reported Recycling Attitudes and Behaviors with Actual Behavior	48	(7)
Kathleen Barker
Lynda Fong
Samara Grossman
Colin Quin
Rachel Reid
SECTION 2 Establishing Entree and Rapport	55	(61)
Establishing Rapport with Deviant Groups	58	(14)
Richard A. Berk
Joseph M. Adams
Assumed and Presumed Identities: Problems of Self-Presentation in Field Research	72	(22)
Richard Tewksbury
Patricia Gagne
A Snowball's Chance in Hell: Doing Fieldwork with Active Residential Burglars	94	(9)
Richard Wright
Scott H. Decker
Allison K. Redfern
Dietrich L. Smith
Doing Gang Research in the 1990s: Pedagogical Implications of the Literature	103	(13)
Mark S. Hamm
SECTION 3 Get a Little Dirt on Your Hands: Illustrations of Extreme Fieldwork	116	(90)
Drug Enforcement's Double-Edged Sword: An Assessment of Asset Forfeiture Programs	119	(19)
J. Mitchell Miller
Lance H. Selva
Women in Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs	138	(17)
Columbus B. Hopper
Johnny Moore
Into the Darkness: An Ethnographic Study of Witchcraft and Death	155	(13)
Wendy G. Lozano
Tanice G. Foltz
Turns-Ons for Money: Interactional Strategies of the Table Dancer	168	(15)
Carol Rambo Ronai
Carolyn Ellis
Nonmainstream Body Modification: Genital Piercing, Branding, Burning, and Cutting	183	(23)
James Myers
SECTION 4 Stigma, Danger, and Ethics: Problems of Extreme Methods	206	(52)
On Having One's Research Seized	209	(7)
David Sonenschein
Personal Safety in Dangerous Places	216	(23)
Terry Williams
Eloise Dunlap
Bruce D. Johnson
Ansley Hamid
The Ethics of Deception in Social Research: A Case Study	239	(19)
Erich Goode
Scholarly Ethics and Courtroom Antics: Where Researchers Stand in the Eyes of the Law	258
Rik Scarce