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"Perhaps," wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, "the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lindy-hop conceals clues to great potential power." As Ellison noted then, many of our most mundane cultural forms are larger and more important than they appear, taking on great significance and an unexpected depth of meaning. What he saw in the power of the Lindy Hop-the dance that Life magazine once billed as "America's True National Folk Dance"--Would spread from black America to make a lasting impression on white America and offer

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: What Is Theory, and Why Does It Change? -- Part I: Changes -- Chapter 1: 1968-2009: What Happ ened? -- Chapter 2: Changes in Theory -- Part II: Transitional Giants -- Introduction -- Chapter 3: Erving Goffman (1922-1982) -- Chapter 4: Michel Foucault (1926-1984) -- Chapter 5: Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) -- Chapter 6: Stuart Hall (1932- ) -- Conclusion -- References and Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index

A dialectical reading of Goffman and Freud connects the Interaction Order to the psychoanalytic conception of the self and thereby open up new possibilities of interpretation and transformation. Goffman's concept of the Interaction Order enables us to understand more clearly the Freudian concepts of superego, ego-ideal, and the introjected Father. Next, we draw out the dramaturgical approach of both Goffman and Freud in terms of performing self and performing illness and discuss how the psychoanalytic reading of Goffman's work sheds light on the formation of neuroses and the neurotic symptoms which Freud characterized as a type of performance. Here we link Freud's "symptoms" to Goffman's modes of disordered or flawed modes of interaction, specifically hysteria connected to havoc and obsessive compulsive disorder connected to hyperritualization. This dialectical reading allows us to rethink notions of sociality and thereby opens new possibilities for constituting the relation between the self and the social.

Building on observations from ethnography at the fin de siècle (Wellin and Fine, 2001), we address how ethnographers today approach their work tasks, incorporating new technology, emphasizing embodiment, sites of struggle, and increasing public engagement. We use the lens of the sociology of work to examine how ethnography has been shaped over the past 15 years, the lifespan of Qualitative Research. How do the challenges of occupational roles, places of research, and new forms of data gathering shape our collective work?

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Paradigms -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter One Paradigms in Sociology -- Chapter Two Conflict Constructionism: Elements of the Paradigm -- Chapter Three History of a Paradigm -- Part II Paradigm Change in Selected Subfields -- Introduction to Part II -- Section 1 Deep Impact: The New Paradigm Becomes Dominant -- Chapter Four Constructing Difference and Dominance: Race-Ethnicity and Gender -- Chapter Five Culture in an Era of Globalization -- Chapter Six Media in the Information Age: Surface Intensities and Total Symbolic Environments -- Chapter Seven Sociology of the Self: From Personality to Persona -- Section 2 Paradigms in Play -- Chapter Eight Political Sociology and the Analysis of Collective Action: Old and New in Harmony -- Chapter Nine Urban Sociology and Spatial Analysis: Paradigms in Coexistence -- Chapter Ten Disruptions in the Field Formerly Known as Sociology of Deviance -- Section 3 Paradigm Limited -- Chapter Eleven Social Class and Socioeconomic Inequality -- Chapter Twelve Contemporary Theories of Family Life -- Section 4 Paradigms Reconstituted in a Transdisciplinary Field -- Chapter Thirteen The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Medical Practice -- Conclusion -- Glossary and Concepts -- References -- Suggested Readings -- Index -- About the Authors and Contributors

Approaches to Ethnography illustrates the various modes of representation and analysis that typify participant observation research. In contrast to the multitude of ethnographic textbooks, handbooks, and readers on the market, this book is neither a "how-to" guide nor a catalogue of substantive themes such as race, community, or space; it also avoids re-hashing epistemological debates, such as grounded theory versus the extended case method. Instead, this volume concisely lays out the predominant analytic lenses that ethnographers use to explain social action—for instance, whether they privilege micro-interaction or social structure, people and places or social processes, internal dispositions or situational contingencies. Each chapter features a prominent ethnographer delineating a distinct approach to the study of everyday life and reflecting on how their approach shapes the way they analyze and represent the field. Taken together, the collection is a practical guide that spells out how different styles of ethnography illuminate different dimensions of everyday social life. As such, Approaches to Ethnography complements and augments—but not duplicate—existing ethnographic methods and logic of inquiry texts for undergraduate and graduate courses on qualitative research methods.