Now in its third edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated
and substantially rewritten. It offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles …

Authors Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson underscore the diversity of approaches at the
disposal of the qualitative researcher by using a single data set—doctoral students and faculty …

… Using but moving beyond this specific material, Paul Atkinson demonstrates the strengths
and weaknesses of the existing understanding of medical knowledge. Among the issues …

… Paul Atkinson looks at seleeted sociological texts in the light of eontemporary social theory
and analyses how their arguments are eonstrueted and illustrated. His diseussion ranges …

We review some of the recent trends that have made the collection and exploration of
narratives especially prominent among the social sciences. While we acknowledge the …

This chapter–which complements that by Lindsay Prior–discusses a particular sort of
documentary analysis. Recognising that organisations in contemporary society are major …

Milan Kundera's novel Immortality bears a close relation to contemporary social science
debates about the production of the self. Commentators like Kleinman and Mishler seem to have …

This article is a reflection on the analysis of ethnographic data gathered from a medical setting.
On the basis of a rereading of field notes, the article identifies two modes of reading. The …

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Atkinson to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with …

Sociologists, anthropologists, and others are paying increasing attention to the collection and
analysis of personal narratives. This is true of qualitative health research, where narratives …