ISBN: 9781848600881    Publisher: Sage Publications Year of publishing: 2011     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: 1528        Language: English

Ethnography is an extremely broad church and the range of methodological stances adopted by ethnographers extends across theoretical political and technological divides. As a method it is intense and often makes considerable personal demands on the researcher but as an academic product the ethnography can be a vivid document with human resonance impossible to recreate by the application of any other methodology. This collection emphasises something of the range of possibilities by focusing on Ethnography in different settings. Implicit in the text is the very specific problems encountered by ethnographers engaging with these very specific fields. Volume One: The Urban Condition addresses attempts by ethnographers to describe and understand urban life. Volume Two: Work covers a range of employment experiences and highlights issues surrounding the ethnographic penetration of the work environment and the cultures that lay hidden within them. Volume Three: Body Sport and Leisure considers the sociologies of health sport and the body. Volume Four: Deviance features the move towards more contemporary forms of transgression in Ethnography itself.
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Dick Hobbs is Professor of Sociology. He worked in a number of manual and clerical jobs before training as a schoolteacher and working in London schools. He undertook postgraduate work at the LSE and the University of Surrey and worked at the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford and briefly at the Polytechnic of Central London before taking up a post at Durham University in 1990 where he worked in both the Sociology and Law Departments. He joined the LSE in September 2005. His interests focus on ethnographic work working class entrepreneurship the sociology of deviance professional and organized crime violence drug markets and the night-time economy. Dick Hobbs is currently working on a book looking at the sociology of organized crime in the UK. He is also working on a 4 volume edited collection on ethnography and a collaborative book on the policing and security implications of the 2012 Olympics.
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