For this assignment you are asked to choose a book that reflects a piece of qualitative reserach. After reading the book, you should prepare an oral presentation that fits within the following time frames: 15 minutes for your own description and discussion of the book, and 10 minutes for questions and answers from others in the class and for discussion of issues related to data analysis.
The presentation should provide a good overview of the research, its methodology, and its findings. As well, it is essential that you present a critical analysis of the analytical approach/method used in the study. Through the presentation, others should have an undestanding of the study, and should be introduced to your critical views about the analysis (including its strengths and its weaknesses).
Books that may be used for this assignment include those listed below. This list is not intended to limit your choices, however if you wish to use something not on the list it is recommended that you discuss the choice with the instructor. The only criteria is that the book reflect a discrete piece of qualitative research.
Selected Empirical Studies Utilizing Qualitative Analysis
Anderson, Elijah. A Place on the Corner, 1978
Becker, Howard S. Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, 1963
Becker, Howard S et al. Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School, 1961
Bogdan, Robert. Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit, 1988
Bok, Sissela. Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life, 1978
Bosk, Charles L. Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure, 1979
Bromley, David G. and Anson D. Shupe, Moonies in America: Cult, Church, and Crusade, 1979
Buckholdt David R. and Jaber F. Gubrium. Caretakers, 1979
Caplow, Theodore et al, Middletown Families: Fifty Years of Change and Continuity, 1982
Cavan, Sherri. Liquor License, 1966
Cressey, Donald R. Other People's Money: A Study in the Social Psychology of Embezzlement, 1953
Dalton, Melville. Men Who Manage: Fusions of Feeling and Theory in Administration, 1959
Douglas, Jack et al. The Nude Beach, 1977
Edgerton, R. B. The Cloak of Competence: Stigma in the Lives of the Mentally Retarded, 1967
Erikson, Kai. Everything In Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood, 1976
Gans, Herbert. Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans, 1962
Gans, Herbert. The Levittowners: The Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community, 1967
Goffman, Erving. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, 1959
Goffman, Erving. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, 1963
Gusfield, Joseph. The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order, 1981
Heilman, Samuel C. Synagogue Life: A Study in Symbolic Interaction, 1976
Hesslink, George K. Black Neighbors: Negroes in a Northern Rural Community, 1968
Heyl, Barbara Sherman. The Madame as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution, 1979
Hochschild, Arlie R. The Unexpected Community: Portrait of an Old Age Subculture, 1978
Humphreys, Laud. Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places, 1975
Irwin, John. The Felon, 1970
Jacobs, Jerry. Fun City: An Ethnographic Study of a Retirement Community, 1974
Johnson, Sheila K. Idle Haven: Community Building Among the Working-Class Retired, 1971
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. Men and Women of the Corporation, 1977
Klockars, Carl B. The Professional Fence, 1975
Kornblum, William. Blue Collar Community, 1974
Krieger, Susan. Hip Capitalism, 1979
Krieger, Susan. The Mirror Dance: Identity in a Women's Community, 1983
Latour, Bruno and Steve Wollgar. Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts, 1979
Leibow, Elliott. Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men, 1967
Lofland, John. Doomsday Cult: A Study of Conversion, Proselytization and Maintenance of Faith, 1977
Lofland, Lyn. A World of Strangers: Order and Action in Urban Public Space, 1973
Lopata, Helena Znaniecki. Occupation: Housewife, 1971
Lyford, Joseph P. The Talk in Vandalia: The Life of an American Town, 1964
Matthews, Sarah. The Social World of Old Women: Management of Self Identity, 1979
Reimer, Jeffrey W. Hard Hats: The Work World of Construction Workers, 1979
Roebuck, Julian B. and Wolfgang Frese. The Rendezvous: A Case Study of an After Hours Club, 1975
Roth, Julius. Timetables: Structuring the Passage of Time in Hospital Treatment and Other Careers, 1963
Rubin, Lillian, Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family, 1976
Scott, Marvin B. The Racing Game, 1968
Shibutani, Tamotsu. Improvised News: A Sociological Study of Rumor, 1966
Sudnow, David. Passing On: The Social Organization of Dying, 1967
Suttles, Gerald D. The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City, 1968
Warner, W. Lloyd. The Living and the Dead: A Study of the Symbolic Life of Americans, 1959
Warren, Carol A. B. Identity and Community in the Gay World, 1974
Whyte, William F. Human Relations in the Restaurant Industry, 1948
Whyte, William F. Streetcorner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum, 1955
Wiseman, Jacqueline. Stations of the Lost:
The Treatment of Skid-Row Alcoholics, 1970