by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2007 | Tax & Policy
2007, Pp. 308-13 in David Canon, John Coleman and Kenneth Mayer (Eds.), Faultlines: Debating the Issues in American Politics, W.W. Norton. It has become nearly axiomatic in this country to argue that everything would be better off if it were run like a business. In...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2006 | Groups & Networks
2006, Small Group Research, 37 (1): 1-16; with Gary Fine. Although small group research has been somewhat marginalized within sociology during the past decades, the authors argue that a focus on interaction arenas can contribute to a more complete analysis of social...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2004 | Groups & Networks
2004, Sociological Theory, 22 (3): 341-356; with Gary Fine. It has been conventional to conceptualize civic life through one of two core images: the citizen as lone individualist or the citizen as joiner. Drawing on analyses of the historical development of the public...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2003 | Methodology
2003, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 32 (5): 592-625. This article uses social psychological theories to unify and expand current conceptions of access in ethnographic research – the process by which researchers gather data via interpersonal relationships...
by Brooke Harrington | Aug 23, 2002 | Methodology
2002, Qualitative Sociology, 25 (1): 49-61. Unlocking the Iron Cage, Michael Schwalbe’s 1996 ethnography of the men’s movement, is in many ways a classic ethnographic account, involving almost three years of intensive participant-observation. But the study...
