Description: Introduction1. Method Talk -- Varieties of Method Talk; Common Threads; Leading QuestionsPart I: Idioms of Qualitative Inquiry2. Naturalism -- "Being There"; "Their Worlds"; "Their Own Stories"; A Tradition of Guidelines3. Ethnomethodology -- The Roots of Ethnomethodology; Bracketing Social Realities; Etnomethodological Description; The Talk of How4. Emotionalism -- The Tone of Emotionalist Talk; A Field of Emotion; Creative Interviewing; The Emotional Fieldworker; Reenacting Emotionality5. Postmodernism -- Expressions of Postmodernism; Studying Cinematic Society; Psychoanalytic Reading; Confronting the Crisis of Representation; Postmodernistic RepresentationPart 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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