TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lareau, Annette
TI  - Listening to people
SN  - 9780226806433
U1  - 301.01 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Sociology-Methodology
KW  - Social sciences-Methodology
KW  - Interviewing in sociology
KW  - Participant observation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Sociologist of education Annette Lareau is renowned in her field for her compassionate ethnographic work and the insightful ideas she's able to draw from it. With Listening to People, she has given us an extremely practical guide to doing the kind of work she has been celebrated for. Lareau covers just about everything a social scientist needs to know--formulating a topic and honing it down to a good research question, obtaining IRB approval, finding a site and making introductions, conducting high-quality interviews and participant--observation, taking good notes and writing them up later, analyzing the data, and best of all, making clear how much the data analysis and the writing are part of the same process. Her tone throughout is about as straightforward as it gets, and she very generously shares stories of her own mistakes, missteps, and anxieties. Written for students and scholars in sociology, education, communications, social work, and possibly political science, anthropology, and related fields, the book will be an indispensable guide for graduate students and faculty in the social sciences (broadly conceived), and is even suitable for undergraduates
ER  -