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How can a person draw on her or his sociological knowledge in everyday life? This insightful new volume collects essays from some of the most renowned sociologists working today. They examine the ways that sociological understanding helps them with their daily experiences. Each contributor works in the qualitative tradition, and the essays cast light on how their observations of everyday life can affect research agendas and vice versa. These essays reflect the desire to understand experiences in a broader context rather than as random and isolated events and how the qualitative approach can achieve that end. Within this collection, editors Barry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz have brought together some of the most distinguished luminaries in the discipline. Many have chosen topics about which they haven′t written before, and the essays place the authors sometimes in the roles of insiders, sometimes in the roles of outsiders--occasionally both. Organized around the notion of place--public places, family spaces, interior spaces, and workplaces--the essays touch on the major subdisciplines within sociology. Personal, engaging, and always thought-provoking, Qualitative Sociology as Everyday Life will be of great interest to sociologists and their students, and to qualitative researchers across disciplines.

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• Part 1 Public Places
• Not Even a Day in the Life
• The Nursing Home
• Essaying the Personal
• Making Sociological Stories Stick
• Enough Already! The Pervasiveness of Warnings in Everyday Life
• Earn as You Learn
• Connections between Doing Qualitative Work and Living Daily Life
• Real Life Sexual Harassment
• Part 2 Family Spaces
• A Conversation about Parenting
• On the (Re)Production of Social Class
• Living In, With, and Beyond Elementary School
• The Personal, the Sociological, and the Intersection of the Two
• "Are We Alone?"
• Five Minutes
• Part 3 Interior Spaces
• The Pleasure of Slowness
• It's Boring
• Notes on the Meaning of Boredom in Everyday Life
• Memory and the Practices of Commitment
• Performing Montana
• A Personal Passage
• Identity Aquisition and Affinity Groups
• Standing on the Threshold and Tripping
• Awkwardness in Becoming a Field-Worker
• My Life with Xena and Billy
• Part 4 Workplaces
• Affirmative Action and Me
• Making Sense and Making a Difference
• Murder and College Administration
• Feeling at Home at Work
• Life in Academic Departments
• On the Nonnegotiable in Sociological Life
• Is There a Philosopher in the House?
• The Two Faces of Professional Discretion
• A Vision from the Client's Bed
• Qualitative Sociology and Good Journalism as Demystifiers
• Talks between Teachers

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Rosanna Hertz is the 1919 Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family (Oxford Press, 2008). She is also the author or co-author of five edited collections which focus on the use of qualitative methods including Open to Disruption: Time and Craft in the Practice of Slow Sociology (Vanderbilt University, 2015) with Anita Ilta Garey and Margaret K. Nelson.