TEACHSOC: FW: Re: TEACHSOC: Re: Workplace ethnography article: any leads?

[D. Angus Vail]

Methinks Marty wanted this to go the whole list and it's got some great stuff in it.  Thus, ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Marty's post!

D. Angus Vail
Department of Sociology
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, OR 97301
Phone: 503.370.6313
Fax: 503.370.6512

"It's not enough to know that things work.
The laurels go to those who can show HOW they work."

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From: Marty Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "D. Angus Vail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TEACHSOC: Re: Workplace ethnography article: any leads?
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:55:23 -0500

Rick Tewksbury at Louisville has a series of pieces on both ethnography of the nature Angus writes about (porn stores, etc.), but also wrote one piece about how a gay bath was organized to direct behavior in certain ways (and how you needed to know all of the codes, as I recall, to know when to knock on a door, when to stay away because things are going on inside, etc.).  Again, they are old.  Write to Rick at the CJ dept, or check an index.

Marty

--On Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:03 PM -0800 "D. Angus Vail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> Hi, Suzanne.  They're a little off the wall, but David Karp has a wonderful piece probably 25 years back in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (which was probably called Urban Life back then) called "Hiding in Pornographic Bookstores."  Also, Spencer Cahill (with a bunch of a his students) had a piece about behavior in public restrooms that's really nice.  As I say, they're both off the beaten track, but they're titilating and, much more importantly, they're really good ethnography.  Of course, they're much more about how people use public space than how an organization structures such a space, but they are fundamentally organizational in orientation.
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> Hope that helps, A.
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> D. Angus Vail
> Department of Sociology
> Willamette University
> 900 State Street
> Salem, OR 97301
> Phone: 503.370.6313
> Fax: 503.370.6512
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> "It's not enough to know that things work.
> The laurels go to those who can show HOW they work."
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> From: Susanne Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: teachsoc@googlegroups.com
> CC: Stacia Zabusky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Travis Vande Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: TEACHSOC: Workplace ethnography article: any leads?
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:10:25 -0500
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> >I'm devising a qualitative research project for students in Research
> >Methods in which they will explore a workplace to identify the
> >cultural categories participants use for activities and tasks: its
> >social structure and social networks. As pairs or groups they will
> >do two or more observations and two or more interviews and will
> >compile the data. I'm getting major support from an anthropology
> >colleague in designing this project.
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> >In other projects, I have had students include a "review of the
> >literature" section in their papers, but I have provided the
> >literature for them. For this one, I would love to locate one or
> >more articles that deal with workplaces using ethnographic methods.
> >My students will not do a full ethnography but they could use such
> >an article as a source of examples of observations or of ideas for
> >analysis.
> >
> >I have a few articles from which I can draw portions but if you have
> >something that you can recommend, I'd appreciate it and would
> >summarize and return your responses to the list.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Susanne
> >
> >--
> >Susanne Morgan, Ph.D.
> >Department of Sociology
> >Center for Faculty Excellence
> >Ithaca College
> >Ithaca NY 14850
> >http://www.ithaca.edu/cfe
> >(607) 274-3521
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Martin D. Schwartz
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