Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining the behavior of the participants in a given social situation and understanding the group members' own interpretation of such behavior.
Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality,including understanding their attitudes,beliefs,and motivation. This type of research typically involves in-depth interviews,focus groups,or observations in order to collect data that is rich in detail and context. Qualitative research is often used to explore complex phenomena or to gain insight into people's experiences and perspectives on a particular topic. It is particularly useful when researchers want to understand the meaning that people attach to their experiences or when they want to uncover the underlying reasons for people's behavior. Qualitative methods include ethnography,grounded theory,discourse analysis,and interpretative phenomenological analysis. Qualitative research methods have been used in sociology,anthropology,political science,psychology,communication studies,social work,folklore,educational research,information science and software engineering research.
Norbert Elias was a German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes.
John Harry Goldthorpe is a British sociologist. He is an emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College,Oxford. His main research interests are in the fields of social stratification and mobility,and comparative macro-sociology. He also writes on methodological issues in relation to the integration of empirical,quantitative research and theory with a particular focus on issues of causation.
Dorothy Edith Smith was a British-born Canadian ethnographer,feminist studies scholar,sociologist,and writer with research interests in a variety of disciplines. These include women's studies,feminist theory,psychology,and educational studies. Smith was also involved in certain subfields of sociology,such as the sociology of knowledge,family studies,and methodology. She founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography.
Eric Dunning was a British sociologist who was Emeritus Professor of sociology at the University of Leicester.
Paul Willis is a British social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. Paul Willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology,anthropology,and education,his work emphasizing consumer culture,socialization,music,and popular culture. He was born in Wolverhampton and received his education at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Birmingham. He worked at Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and subsequently at the University of Wolverhampton. He was a Professor of Social/Cultural Ethnography at Keele University. In the autumn of 2010,he left Keele University and is now a professor at Princeton University.
Stephen William Woolgar is a British sociologist. He has worked closely with Bruno Latour,with whom he wrote Laboratory Life:The Construction of Scientific Facts (1979).
Historical sociology is an interdisciplinary field of research that combines sociological and historical methods to understand the past,how societies have developed over time,and the impact this has on the present. It emphasises a mutual line of inquiry of the past and present to understand how discrete historical events fit into wider societal progress and ongoing dilemmas through complementary comparative analysis.
Sociomusicology,also called music sociology or the sociology of music,refers to both an academic subfield of sociology that is concerned with music,as well as a subfield of musicology that focuses on social aspects of musical behavior and the role of music in society.
John David Brewer HDSSc,MRIA,FRSE,FAcSS,FRSA is an Irish-British sociologist who was the former President of the British Sociological Association (2009–12),and was Professor of Post Conflict Studies in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace,Security and Justice at Queen's University Belfast (2013–2023),and is now Emeritus Professor in the Mitchell Institute. He is also Honorary Professor Extraordinary,Stellenbosch University (2017–present) and Honorary Professor of Sociology,Warwick University (2021–present). He was formerly Sixth-Century Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen (2004–13). He is a member of the United Nations Roster of Global Experts for his work on peace processes (2010–present). He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2012 from Brunel University for services to social science.
Casparus Adrianus Petrus Maria "Cas" Wouters is a Dutch sociologist. He studied sociology in Amsterdam. At present he is a researcher at Utrecht University,affiliated with the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR).
John Peter Scott is an English sociologist working on issues of economic and political sociology,social stratification,the history of sociology,and social network analysis. He is currently working independently,and has previously worked at the Universities of Strathclyde,Leicester,Essex,and Plymouth. He is a Fellow of the British Academy,a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been a member of the British Sociological Association since 1970. In 2015 he became Chair of Section S4 of the British Academy. In 2016 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Essex University.
Andrew Delano Abbott is an American sociologist and social theorist working at the University of Chicago. He is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the college. His research topics range from occupations and professions to the philosophy of methods,the history of academic disciplines,to the sociology of knowledge. He is also the founder of the field of sequence analysis. He was the editor of the American Journal of Sociology from 2000 to 2016.
Sociological Research Online is a sociological journal,published quarterly since March 1996. It is an online-only,peer-reviewed journal. It was originally published by a consortium of the British Sociological Association,SAGE Publications,the University of Surrey and the University of Stirling. In 2017,the University of Surrey and the University of Stirling stepped down and SAGE began publishing the journal on behalf of the British Sociological Association.
Gabriele Rosenthal is a German sociologist and head of Department for Qualitative Methods of the Center for Methods in Social Sciences of the University of Göttingen,Germany. Rosenthal is recognized for the introduction of the method of biographical case reconstruction using biographical narrative interviews. She is known for systemizing the influences of the Gestalt theory,the sociology of knowledge,and the sociology of figurations and processes to explain the interrelationship between experience,memory and narrative,as well as how social figurations intertwine with individual biographies.
Relational sociology is a collection of sociological theories that emphasize relationalism over substantivalism in explanations and interpretations of social phenomena and is most directly connected to the work of Harrison White and Charles Tilly in the United States and Pierpaolo Donati and Nick Crossley in Europe.
Martyn Hammersley is a British sociologist whose main publications cover social research methodology and philosophical issues in the social sciences.
Learning to Labour:How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs is a 1977 book on education,written by British social scientist and cultural theorist Paul Willis. A Columbia University Press edition,titled the "Morningside Edition," was published in the United States shortly after its reception.
Sarah Pink is a British-born social scientist,ethnographer and social anthropologist,now based in Australia,known for her work using visual research methods such as photography,images,video and other media for ethnographic research in digital media and new technologies. She has an international reputation for her work in visual ethnography and her book Doing Visual Ethnography, first published in 2001 and now in its 4th edition,is used in anthropology,sociology,cultural studies,photographic studies and media studies. She has designed or undertaken ethnographic research in UK,Spain,Australia,Sweden,Brazil and Indonesia.
