While providing an introduction to basic principles and strategies, Participant Observation also explores the philosophy and methodology underlying the actual practice of participant observation. Taking a thoroughly practical approach to the methods of participant observation, Danny L. Jorgensen illustrates these methods with both classic and current research studies. By using the materials in this book, the reader can begin conducting participant observation research on their own. Dr. Jorgensen is a sociologist of religion, a Professor of Religious Studies, and a former Director of Graduate Studies at USF. He is a series editor for Universities of South Florida-Rochester-St. Louis Studies in Religion and Social Order: Studies of Latter Day Saint Religion (Scholar Press). He has edited a volume entitled Religion and the Challenge of Modernity: The Reogranized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the United States Today for this series. He has also published in the American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Quarterly, Urban Life (Journal of Contemporary Ethnography), Symbolic Interaction, Deviant Behavior, Kansas History, Annals of Iowa, Journal of Mormon History, Dialogue, John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, Nauvoo Journal, and Nova Religio.
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