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Queer Methods in Sociology

D'Lane R. Compton, Tey Meadow, Kristen Schilt (Herausgeber)

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2018
352 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96399-3 (ISBN)

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This provocative collection showcasesthe work of emerging and established sociologists in the fields of sexuality and gender studies as they reflect on what it means to develop, practice, and teach queer methods.Located within the critical conversation about the possibilities and challenges of utilizing insights from humanistic queer epistemologies in social scientific research,Other, Please Specifypresents to a new generation of researchers an array of experiences, insights, and approaches, revealing the power of investigations of the social world. With contributions from sociologists who have helped define queer studies and who use a range of interpretative and statistical methods, this volume offers methodological advice and practical strategies in research design and execution, all with the intent of getting queer research off the ground and building a collaborative community within this emerging subfield.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Queer Work in a Straight Discipline
Kristen Schilt, Tey Meadow, and D’Lane Compton

PART I ANTI-ORTHODOXIES

1. The “Not Sociology” Problem
Kristen Schilt

2. The Methods Gatekeepers and the Exiled Queers
Jane Ward

3. Trans Issues in Sociology: A Trans-Centered Perspective
Emilia Lombardi

4. Beyond Academia: Strategies for Using LGBT Research to Influence Public Policy
Gary J. Gates and Jody L. Herman

5. Pornographics as Queer Method
Angela Jones

PART II RELATIONSHIPS

6. Not Out in the Field: Studying Privacy and Disclosure as an Invisible (Trans) Man
Cayce C. Hughes

7. Thank You for Coming Out Today: The Queer Discomforts of In-Depth Interviewing
Catherine Connell

8. Studying the “Right” Can Feel Wrong: Reflections on Researching Anti-LGBT Movements
Tina Fetner and Melanie Heath

9. The Mess: Vulnerability as Ethnographic Practice
Tey Meadow

PART III STRATEGIES

10. Challenges, Triumphs, and Praxis: Collecting Qualitative Data on Less Visible and Marginalized Populations
Mignon R. Moore

11. How Many (Queer) Cases Do I Need? Thinking Through Research Design
D’Lane Compton

12. Queer Spatial Analysis
Amin Ghaziani

13. Queer Persistence in the Archive
Amy L. Stone

14. Gendering Carnal Ethnography: A Queer Reception
Kimberly Kay Hoang

PART IV EPISTEMOLOGIES

15. Translation as Queer Methodology
Evren Savci

16. Queer and Punishment: Sexual Social Control and the Legacy of “Nuts, Sluts and Preverts”
Trevor Hoppe

17. The Demography of Sexuality: Queering Demographic Methods
Amanda K. Baumle

18. What to Do with Actual People? Thinking Through a Queer Social Science Method
C. J. Pascoe

19. Queer Accounting: Methodological Investments and Disinvestments
Carla A. Pfeffer

List of Contributors
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.7.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: anti lgbt • collaborative communties in queer studies • Feminism • gender and feminism • gender feminism lgbt • Gender Studies • humanistic queer epistemologies • LGBT • LGBTQ • lgbtq social scientists • LGBTQ Studies • politics and philosophy • practical strategies in queer methodologies • queer books • queer epistemologies • queering sociology • queer methods • queer research • Queer Studies • queer textbooks • Sexuality Studies • social scientific research • teach queer
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96399-7 / 0520963997
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96399-3 / 9780520963993