Howard Becker's homepage: Much of Becker's papers and article can be found here
Debate on Ethnography- Loic Wacquant, Eli Anderson, Mitch Duneier, Katherine Newman (pdf format)
William
F.Whyte
Partipatory Action Bibliography
Qualitative Report - resources on line
Action Research On-Line Materials to teach about action research and evaluation
Forum
for Qualitative Social Research
An on-line journal devoted to qualitative research
Field research simply means research which is "out of the office," It means to look at people and social behavior in real life and not on a computer screen or to abstaract people as numbers or things. The study of gangs has long been a bastion for field research, although in the past decades more and more "courthouse criminologists" are differentiating "gang" and "non-gang" by statistical techniques that do nor require personal observation. This page is dedicated to promoting field research, as a means of understanding gangs and as an essential tool in the social science reportoire.
Which one is the researcher?
Chicago is the home of gang research and one of the most important social scientists is James F. Short, Jr.Former president of both the American Sociological Association and the American Socieity of Criminology, Short led a major investigation on criminological theory and gangs in Chicago in the 1960s. He sums up some of his Chicago research experience in an important talk at UIC. There is a real video movie of the opening of his talk.
Joan Moore
is a University of Chicago graduate who pioneered the
practice of collaborative research between academics and gang
members. Her studies in Los Angeles are among the best research
ever done on gangs. She recaps her experience in another unpublished
talk.
Kenneth B. Clark was one of the most important social scientists of the twentieth centuries. His contributions to research are discussed by John Hagedorn in a talk at UIC. Hagedorn also has an important article on collaborative gang research, The Emperor's New Clothes, is in pdf form.
Moore and Hagedorn have commented on the problems of female gang research in a review of the literature done for the Justice Department.
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