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  • Learning From Strangers

    The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies

    by Robert S. Weiss ...
    Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation -- an open and trusting alliance between interviewer and respondent, dedicated to specific and honest accounts of both internal and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Institutions and the Person

    Festschrift in Honor of Everett C.Hughes

    by Howard Saul Becker, Blanche Geer, David Riesman, Robert S. Weiss ...
    Everett C. Hughes had a great impact on the field of sociology as a whole and on an entire generation of sociologists. Some of Hughes' former students and colleagues honor him in this book. The essays address the main themes in his work over the years, and illustrate as well Hughes' impact on the contributors, many of whom are themselves senior figures in the field. The book as a whole provides a ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Challenges of the Third Age

    Meaning and Purpose in Later Life

    Edited by Robert S. Weiss, Scott A. Bass ...
    The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted, a time in which they are free from social expectations and, to a large extent, from obligations to others. Life's meanings are no longer provided by work and family. Instead, men and women have the freedom, and the need, to find new activities that they can imbue with meaning. The term, "Third Age" has been given to this ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • New Directions in Anthropological Kinship

    by Lynn Åkesson, Lisa M. Anderson-Levy, Caroline B. Brettell, Rosa De Jorio, Allen S. Ehrlich, Kathy-Lee Galvin, Ilana Gershon, Barry S. Hewlett, David Jacobson, William Jankowiak, Louise Lamphere, Joan H. Liem, Susanne Lundin, Richard E. Maddy, Judith S. Modell, Cynthia Robin, Joan B. Silk, Karen Sinclair, Robert S. Weiss ...
    Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The book comprises contributions from primatology, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. The authors review the history ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    Learning From Strangers

    The Art and Method of Qualitative Interview Studies

    by Robert S. Weiss ...
    Narrated by Dan Gallagher ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's 30 years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation - an open and trusting alliance between interviewer and respondent, dedicated to specific and honest accounts of both internal and external ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Public Service and Moral Agency

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