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One The sociologist as voyeur

Abstract

Liza Schuster reflects on the emotional labour involved in conducting ethnographies among vulnerable populations. She notes that the data do not speak for themselves, so that there is an obligation to provide sociological analyses. Citing Stan Cohen and John Solomos, she suggests that academic analyses and activism can go together and the politics in which any sociological issue is embedded should not be forgotten.

Abstract

Liza Schuster reflects on the emotional labour involved in conducting ethnographies among vulnerable populations. She notes that the data do not speak for themselves, so that there is an obligation to provide sociological analyses. Citing Stan Cohen and John Solomos, she suggests that academic analyses and activism can go together and the politics in which any sociological issue is embedded should not be forgotten.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. Acknowledgements vi
  4. Foreword vii
  5. Introduction 1
  6. What can sociology do?
  7. The sociologist as voyeur 17
  8. Why sociology? 23
  9. Sociology as a science/technology of freedom 29
  10. Why sociology matters 35
  11. Passion, curiosity and integrity 41
  12. Sociology as democratic knowledge 49
  13. Pushing at the boundaries of the discipline: politics, personal life and the psychosocial 55
  14. Growing up as a sociologist in rural Shropshire 71
  15. On the right-of-way 77
  16. Living sociology 83
  17. What does it mean to be a sociologist?
  18. Sociology for some, someone’s sociology… 99
  19. Imagining social science 109
  20. From accidental to ambitious sociology 117
  21. Sociographer by design? Boundary crossings and interdisciplinarity 123
  22. ‘I am a sociologist’; but what exactly is a sociologist and how do you become one? 129
  23. Sociology: from committing to being? 135
  24. Drift, opportunity and commitment: the shaping of a professional career 143
  25. A passion for empirical sociology 153
  26. Me, myself and sociology 163
  27. Turning to the psychosocial: drawing on sociology to address societal issues 171
  28. How does one become a sociologist?
  29. A long haul 181
  30. Putting sociology to work in the NHS 187
  31. Clinging to the precipice: travails of a contract researcher in sociology 197
  32. The pursuit of a sociological career overseas and the navigation of an outsider perspective 205
  33. Tales from the field: applied policy research and the sociological imagination 213
  34. What sociology means to me: exploring, imagining and challenging 219
  35. Social science which engages with the real world 225
  36. A sporting chance? Notes on an ongoing career in the sociology of sport 235
  37. Sociology: involvement and detachment 243
  38. A career spent orbiting sociology 251
  39. Researching children’s lives: on becoming and being a sociologist in education 257
  40. Following my star 263
  41. ‘The epoch of belief…the epoch of incredulity’ 273
  42. Recommended readings 279
  43. Resources for readers 287
  44. Index 291
Sociologists' Tales
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Sociologists' Tales
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447318699-004

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents iii
  3. Acknowledgements vi
  4. Foreword vii
  5. Introduction 1
  6. What can sociology do?
  7. The sociologist as voyeur 17
  8. Why sociology? 23
  9. Sociology as a science/technology of freedom 29
  10. Why sociology matters 35
  11. Passion, curiosity and integrity 41
  12. Sociology as democratic knowledge 49
  13. Pushing at the boundaries of the discipline: politics, personal life and the psychosocial 55
  14. Growing up as a sociologist in rural Shropshire 71
  15. On the right-of-way 77
  16. Living sociology 83
  17. What does it mean to be a sociologist?
  18. Sociology for some, someone’s sociology… 99
  19. Imagining social science 109
  20. From accidental to ambitious sociology 117
  21. Sociographer by design? Boundary crossings and interdisciplinarity 123
  22. ‘I am a sociologist’; but what exactly is a sociologist and how do you become one? 129
  23. Sociology: from committing to being? 135
  24. Drift, opportunity and commitment: the shaping of a professional career 143
  25. A passion for empirical sociology 153
  26. Me, myself and sociology 163
  27. Turning to the psychosocial: drawing on sociology to address societal issues 171
  28. How does one become a sociologist?
  29. A long haul 181
  30. Putting sociology to work in the NHS 187
  31. Clinging to the precipice: travails of a contract researcher in sociology 197
  32. The pursuit of a sociological career overseas and the navigation of an outsider perspective 205
  33. Tales from the field: applied policy research and the sociological imagination 213
  34. What sociology means to me: exploring, imagining and challenging 219
  35. Social science which engages with the real world 225
  36. A sporting chance? Notes on an ongoing career in the sociology of sport 235
  37. Sociology: involvement and detachment 243
  38. A career spent orbiting sociology 251
  39. Researching children’s lives: on becoming and being a sociologist in education 257
  40. Following my star 263
  41. ‘The epoch of belief…the epoch of incredulity’ 273
  42. Recommended readings 279
  43. Resources for readers 287
  44. Index 291
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