Qualitative Sociology as Everyday Life [Paperback]

This insightful volume collects essays from some of the most renowned sociologists working today. They examine the ways that sociological understanding helps them with their daily experiences. These essays reflect the desire to understand experiences in a broader context rather than as random and isolated events - and how the qualitative approach can achieve that end.

Organized around the notion of place - public places, family spaces, interior spaces, and workplaces, the essays touch on the major sub-disciplines within sociology.This insightful volume collects essays from some of the most renowned sociologists working today. They examine the ways that sociological understanding helps them with their daily experiences. These essays reflect the desire to understand experiences in a broader context rather than as random and isolated events - and how the qualitative approach can achieve that end.

Organized around the notion of place - public places, family spaces, interior spaces, and workplaces, the essays touch on the major sub-disciplines within sociology.PART ONE: PUBLIC PLACES
Not Even a Day in the Life - Candace West
The Nursing Home - Lillian B Rubin
Essaying the Personal - Sherryl Kleinman
Making Sociological Stories Stick
Enough Already! The Pervasiveness of Warnings in Everyday Life - Shulamit Reinharz
Earn as You Learn - Clinton R Sanders
Connections between Doing Qualitative Work and Living Daily Life
Real Life Sexual Harassment - Christine L Williams
PART TWO: FAMILY SPACES
A Conversation about Parenting - Naomi Gerstel and Robert Zussman
On the (Re)Production of Social Class - Susan E Bell
Living In, With, and Beyond Elementary School
The Personal, the Sociological, and the Intersection of the Two - Lynne Davidman
Are We Alone? - Marjorie L DeVault