Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul atkinson

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  • ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS
    EMILIE MORWENNA WHITAKER / PAUL ATKINSON
    In Ethnographic Explorations: Surrender and Resistance, Whitaker and Atkinson, two experienced ethnographers, explore the complexities of fieldwork, analysis and writing from new perspectives. It takes the opportunity to reflect on Ethnography not just as a methodological perspective, but at a fundamental level. In general terms, Ethnography is seen not just in terms of a set o...

    $979.00

  • CRAFTING ETHNOGRAPHY
    PAUL ATKINSON
    This final book in Paul Atkinson’s celebrated quartet on ethnographic research investigates material culture and its relationship to sensory ethnography. Building on the author’s recent fieldwork, the book showcases how materials, techniques, tools and perspectives combine with the five senses to inform ethnographic methods. Filled with images and hands-on examples of encounter...

    $712.89

  • ETHNOGRAPHIC ENGAGEMENTS
    SARA DELAMONT / PAUL ATKINSON
    In Ethnographic Engagements: Encounters with the Familiar and the Strange Delamont and Atkinson, each with over 40 years of experience as ethnographers, present strategies for designing, conducting and publishing research that contributes original insights. Ethnography is a core qualitative research method, widely used across the social sciences. However, producing good, intere...

    $1,039.00

  • RISKY RELATIONS
    KATIE FEATHERSTONE / PAUL ATKINSON / ADITYA BHARADWAJ / ANGUS CLARKE
    Increasingly more conditions are now being identified as having a genetic component, and controversial new genetic technologies potentially have major consequences for social relations and self-identity. How do family members respond to the information that they have a genetically transmitted disease or condition? How do they communicate (or not communicate) about their shared ...

    $939.00

  • WRITING ETHNOGRAPHICALLY
    PAUL ANTHONY ATKINSON
    This original and authoritative exploration of ethnographic writing comes from one of the world′s leading academics in the field, Paul Atkinson. The third book in his seminal quartet on ethnographic research, it provides thoughtful, reflective guidance on a crucial skill that is often difficult to master. Informed throughout by extracts from Paul’s own writing, this book explor...

    $848.68

  • ETHNOGRAPHY
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY / PAUL ATKINSON
    Now in its fourth edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. The volume offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice, and includes a new chapter on ‘Ethnography in the digital world’. The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process. This requires recognition ...

    $1,099.00

  • SOCIOLOGICAL READINGS AND RE-READINGS (1996)
    PAUL ATKINSON
    Published in 1996, this book comprises a number of essays by Paul Atkinson in which he reflects on processes of reading and writing in the social sciences. Topics covered include: ethnographers’ ‘confessions’, an analysis of the style of Erving Goffman, a reflection of his own experiences of re-reading work, and a discussion of the challenges of reading an alien discipline. Thi...

    $859.00

  • THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, SECOND EDITION (1997)
    PAUL ATKINSON
    This second edition, published in 1997 follows the original edition from 1981 which was the only published ethnography of medical education in the UK. The theoretical, methodological and substantive issues continue to be of importance to the sociology and anthropology of medicine and medical knowledge. Indeed, critiques of contemporary ‘biomedicine’ and the growing interest in ...

    $859.00

  • THINKING ETHNOGRAPHICALLY
    PAUL ATKINSON
    Written by a leading authority, this book discusses a wide range of analytic ideas that can and should inform ethnographic analysis. In introducing the notion of ‘granular ethnography’ it argues for an approach to qualitative research that is sensitive to the complexities of everyday social life. A much-needed antidote to superficial research and analysis, the text deals not me...

    $848.68

  • FOR ETHNOGRAPHY
    PAUL ATKINSON
    "This text is something of a masterclass in its own right. Few are as well placed to comment on the debates surrounding ethnography – debates which the author had been instrumental in shaping – and to offer a clear and authoritative call-to-arms to future, aspirant ethnographers. It is a passionate but realistic manifesto for those wishing to undertake the craft of ethnography ...

    $899.60

  • LANGUAGE, STRUCTURE AND REPRODUCTION (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    PAUL ATKINSON
    Basil Bernstein is one of the most creative and influential of contemporary British sociologists, yet his work – especially that relating to language and social structure – is widely misunderstood and misrepresented. This book, first published in 1985, addresses the underlying themes and continuities in Bernstein’s work and portrays him as a sociologist in the Durkheimian tradi...

    $1,399.00

  • THE ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    PAUL ATKINSON
    First published in 1990, The Ethnographic Imagination explores how sociologists use literary and rhetorical conventions to convey their findings and arguments, and to 'persuade' their colleagues and students of the authenticity of their accounts. Looking at selected sociological texts in the light of contemporary social theory, the author analyses how their arguments are constr...

    $1,039.00

  • QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND HYPERMEDIA
    BELLA DICKS / BRUCE MASON / AMANDA COFFEY / PAUL ATKINSON
    Digital culture and digital technologies have rapidly become unavoidable and essential forms of social experience and communication in our emerging globalised society. If we want to attempt to analyse and understand our technology-saturated society, and all its new media, then we must also develop research methods and forms of analysis that can accommodate and exploit digital c...

    $3,790.22

  • INTERACTIONISM
    PAUL ATKINSON / WILLIAM HOUSLEY
    ′Atkinson and Housley have produced a book that is a very competent, interesting and useful addition to other work in the field. Its distinctive contribution for me, lies in the exploration of the relationship between, and developments within interactionist sociologies′ - Sociology What is symbolic interactionism? This refreshing and authoritative book provides readers with: · ...

    $1,099.84

  • CREATING CONDITIONS
    KATIE FEATHERSTONE / PAUL ATKINSON
    Based on original ethnographic research with scientists, clinicians and families, this book examines Rett syndrome to illuminate more general issues concerning the construction and interpretation of diseases and syndromes. It derives from research with a specialist team of clinicians and scientists, and a series of families referred with a potential diagnosis of Rett syndrome, ...

    $999.00

  • THE DOCTORAL EXPERIENCE
    SARA DELAMONT / PAUL ATKINSON / ODETTE PARRY
    Richly illustrated with case studies and interviews, this book identifies key themes pervading academic life: the nature of research and research supervision; key social processes and problems; distinct and contrasting sub-cultures of departments and disciplines in universities; mentorship and sponsorship; and apprenticeship and rites of passage for postgraduate students. Anyon...

    $1,299.00

  • OCCUPATIONAL SOCIALIZATION AND WORKING LIVES (1994)
    AMANDA COFFEY / PAUL ATKINSON
    Published in 1994, this book gathers together a series of original studies on occupational socialization and the everyday realities of work. It includes detailed, empirically based accounts of a variety of occupational settings. Included are: social workers; trainee midwives; prison officers; accountants; teachers; psychiatrists; postgraduate research students. They all reflect...

    $859.00

  • MOTIVATIONAL COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY
    CATHY ATKINSON / PAUL EARNSHAW
    This informative and straightforward book explores the emergence of motivational interviewing (MI) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), with specific attention given to the increasing focus on the central importance of the therapeutic alliance in improving client outcomes. Comprising 30 short chapters divided into two parts –  theory and practice –  this entry in the popula...

    $459.00