Fieldwork, Participation and Practice : Ethics and Dilemmas in Qualitative Research

by Marlene de Laine

• ISBN13: 9780761954866
• ISBN10: 0761954864
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781446228173
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-19
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
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Summary

This timely and topical look at the role of ethics in fieldwork takes into account some of the major issues confronting qualitative researchers. The main purposes of this book are twofold: to promote an understanding of the harmful possibilities of fieldwork; and to provide ways of dealing with ethical problems and dilemmas. To these ends, examples of actual fieldwork are provided that address ethical problems and dilemmas, and posit ways of dealing with them.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(16)
The moral career of the qualitative fieldworker	16	(22)
Scripts and staging the self	38	(29)
Back regions and sensitive methods	67	(27)
Roles and role performance	94	(26)
Ethical dilemmas: the demands and expectations of various audiences	120	(26)
Field notes: ethics and the emotional self	146	(31)
Textual `impression management' of self and others	177	(30)
Conclusion	207	(9)
References	216	(10)
Index	226