Anita Ilta Garey

Open to Disruption: Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology Anita Ilta Garey

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes bibliographical references.; The noted scholars in this collection expose the backstage stories about surprises that disrupted the smooth trajectory of their research. With both dignity and beauty, the collection as a whole evokes the risks, uncertainty, and excitement of innovative social science research--; Provided by publisher. Jacket Description/Flap: The backstage stories of the surprises, personal and professional, that disrupt research but often enrich itTable of Contents: Introduction: On Being Open to Disruption / Margaret K. Nelson, Rosanna Hertz -- Part I. Changing Subjects, Changing Relationships, Changing Worlds -- 1. From a Study to a Journey: Holding an Ethnographic Gaze on Urban Poverty for Two Decades / Timothy Black -- 2. Conflicted Selves: Trust and Betrayal in Studying the Hare Krishna / E. Burke Rochford Jr. -- 3. Returns / Joanna Dreby -- 4. Studying My Hometown / Albert Hunter -- 5. Breaching Boundaries and Dowsing for Stories on the Great Plains / Karen V. Hansen -- Part II. Changing Methods, Changing Frameworks -- 6. Disrupting Scholarship / Susan E. Bell -- 7. A Sociology of Inclusion and Exclusion through the Lens of the Maid's Daughter / Mary Romero -- 8. Getting to the Dark Side of the Moon: Researching the Lives of Women in Cartography / Will C. van den Hoonaard -- 9. Getting It Right / Pamela Stone -- 10. Breakfast at Elmo's: Adolescent Boys and Disruptive Politics in the Kinscripts Narrative / Linda M. Burton, Carol B. Stack -- Part III. Reflections on Disruptions: Time and Craft -- 11. History on a Slow Track / Emily K. Abel -- 12. A Serendipitous Lesson: Or, How What We Do Shapes What We Know / Margaret K. Nelson -- 13. Paying Forward and Paying Back / Rosavna Hertz -- 14. Rethinking Families: A Slow Journey / Naomi Gerstel -- 15. Time to Find Words / Marjorie L. DeVault -- 16. The Days Are Long, but the Years Fly By: Reflections on the Challenges of Doing Qualitative Research / Annette Lareau -- Contributors. Publisher Marketing: At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with people studied invariably change, sometimes in dramatic ways. They illustrate how world events such as 9/11 and economic cycles impact individual biographies. Some researchers describe how disruptions prompted them to expand the boundaries of their discipline and invent concepts that could more accurately describe phenomena that previously had no name and no scholarly history. Sometimes scholars themselves caused the disruption as they circled back to work they had considered "done" and allowed the possibility of rethinking earlier findings.

Contributor Bio:  Garey, Anita Ilta Anita Ilta Garey is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her book Weaving Work and Motherhood received the William J. Goode Award from the Family Section of the American Sociology Association. She has co-edited three other books, including (with Margaret K. Nelson) "Who's Watching?: Daily Practices of Surveillance among Contemporary Families", also from Vanderbilt University Press. Contributor Bio:  Hertz, Rosanna Rosanna Hertz is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wellesley College and author of "More Equal Than Others "(California, 1990). Nancy L. Marshall is Senior Research Scientist at the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. Contributor Bio:  Nelson, Margaret K Margaret K. Nelson is A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College. She is the author of "Negotiated Care: The Experiences of Family Day Care Providers" (1991). Joan Smith is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont. She is the author of "Creating and Transforming Households: The Constraints of the World Economy" (1992).