Description: Introduction 1. Method Talk -- Varieties of Method Talk; Common Threads; Leading Questions Part I: Idioms of Qualitative Inquiry 2. Naturalism -- "Being There"; "Their Worlds"; "Their Own Stories"; A Tradition of Guidelines 3. Ethnomethodology -- The Roots of Ethnomethodology; Bracketing Social Realities; Etnomethodological Description; The Talk of How 4. Emotionalism -- The Tone of Emotionalist Talk; A Field of Emotion; Creative Interviewing; The Emotional Fieldworker; Reenacting Emotionality 5. Postmodernism -- Expressions of Postmodernism; Studying Cinematic Society; Psychoanalytic Reading; Confronting the Crisis of Representation; Postmodernistic Representation Part II: Renewing the Language: 6. Analytic Choices -- Where Do We Go From Home?; At the Lived Border of Reality and Representation; Enduring Risks; What Are the Options?; Choosing an Analytic Vocabulary; Analyzing Interpretive Practice; 7. The "Artful" Side of Interpretive Practice -- Conversational Structure and Interactional Competencies; Constitutive Description; Narrative Practice; 8. Condition of Interpretation -- Goffman as a Point of Departure; Contingencies of Circumstance; Interpretive Resources; Local Culture; Institutional Sites/Sights of Local Culture; The Comparative Ethnography of Interpretive Practice; 9. Explanation and Deprivatization -- Emerging Explanatory Footings; Deprivatization and Interpretation; Diversity and Deprivatization; Reflexively Reasserting the Common Threads

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