| Details | | Publication Date: | 1996-08-01 | | Series: | John d and Catherine t Macarthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and devElopment | | Editor: | Anne Colby, Richard A. Shweder, Richard Jessor |
| Size | | Length: | 516 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 30.4 oz |
Publisher's Note
Studies of human development have taken an ethnographic turn in the 1990s. In this volume, leading anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists discuss how qualitative methodologies have strengthened our understanding of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development, and of the difficulties of growing up in contemporary society....Part 1, informed by a post-positivist philosophy of science, argues for the validity of ethnographic knowledge. Part 2 examines a range of qualitative methods, from participant observation to the hermeneutic elaboration of texts. In Part 3, ethnographic methods are applied to issues of human development across the life span and to social problems including poverty, racial and ethnic marginality, and crime. Restoring ethnographic methods to a central place in social inquiry, these twenty-two lively essays will interest everyone concerned with the epistemological problems of context, meaning, and subjectivity in the behavioral sciences.
Table of Contents Preface List of Contributors 1: Ethnographic Methods in Contemporary Perspective Richard Jessor 2: True Ethnography: The Lore, the Law, and the Lure--Richard A. Shweder 3: The Epistemology of Qualitative Research--Howard S. Becker 4: Missing Persons: Recovering Developmental Stories/Histories--Elliot G. Mishler 5: Culture, Development, Disability--R. P. McDermott, Herve Varenne.
6: The Epistemological Crisis in the Human Disciplines: Letting the Old Do the Work of the New--Norman K. Denzin 7: Can We Overcome Worldview Incommensurability/Relativity in Trying to Understand the Other?--Donald T. Campbell 8: Quanta and Qualia: What Is the "Object" of Ethnographic Method?--Richard A. Shweder 9: Instantiating Culture through Discourse Practices: Some Personal Reflections on Socialization and How to Study It--Peggy J. Miller 10: Neighborhood Social Organization: A Forgotten Object of Ethnographic Study?--
Mercer L. Sullivan 11: Ruling Places: Adaptation in Development by Inner-City Youth--Shirley Brice Heath 12: Role-Relationship Models: A Person-Schematic Method for Inferring Beliefs about Identity and Social Action--Mardi J. Horowitz, Charles Stinson, Constance Milbrath.
13: Studying Cognitive Development in Sociocultural Context: The Development of a Practice-Based Approach--Geoffrey B. Saxe 14: Why Ethnography Should Be the Most Important Method in the Study of Human Development--Thomas S. Weisner 15: The Multiple Contexts of Human Development--Anne Colby 16: Ideology and Subjectivity: Midlife and Menopause in Japan and North America Margaret Lock 17: Ethnography, Biography, and Cultural History: Generational Paradigms in Human Development--Katherine Newman 18: Ethnographic Insights on Social Context and Adolescent Development among Inner-City African-American Teens--Linda M. Burton, Dawn A. Obeidallah, Kevin Allison.
19: Transitions in Early Childhood: The Promise of Comparative, Longitudinal Ethnography--William A. Corsaro 20: Nature, Second Nature, and Individual Development: An Ethnographic Opportunity--William Damon 21: The Uneasy Engagement of Human Development and Ethnography John Modell Author Index Subject Index
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