SAGE Journal Articles

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Article 1: Librett, M. (August 2008). Wild pigs and outlaws: The kindred worlds of policing and outlaw bikers. Crime, Media, Culture. 4: 257-269.

Questions to Consider:

  1. Which type of research method from the book chapter is used by Librett (2008)? Is this the most beneficial method to use given the research topic? Why or why not?
  2. What is meant by the term “edgework”? How are bikers “edgeworkers”?

Article 2: Lugosi, L.  (2006).  Between Overt and Covert Research: Concealment and Disclosure in an Ethnographic Study of Commercial Hospitality.  Qualitative Inquiry 12: 541-561.

Lugosi (2006) suggests that examining the contextual nature of fieldwork helps ethnographers and their potential critics to understand why concealment is a necessary and often inevitable part of research. This article thus seeks to provide an alternative point of reference that informs debates surrounding the emergence of concealment and covertness in research.

Questions to Consider:

  1. Does this article emphasize Overt or Covert Research? What does covert research and the use of covert methods have to offer the field? What is covert research and their methods critiqued for?
  2. Does the author argue the labeling and dismisal of “covert” research as useful or not? Explain.

Additional articles:

Belousov, K et al.,  Any port in a storm:  Fieldwork difficulties in dangerous and crisis-ridden settings.  Qualitative Research 7: 155-177

Denegri-Knott, J and Taylor, J.  (2005).  The Labeling Game: A Conceptual Exploration of Deviance on the Internet. Social Science Computer Review 23:. 93-107.

DiNitto, D. M. et al., (2008).  Testing Telephone and Web Surveys for Studying Men's Sexual Assault Perpetration.  Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 23: 1483-1493.

Schlosser, J. A.  Issues in interviewing inmates:  Navigating the Methodological landmines of prison research.  Qualitative Inquiry 14: 1500-1525.

Williams, M.  Avatar watching:  Participant observation in graphical online environments.  Qualitative Research 7: 5-24