Fumiko Hosokawa

Building Trust (eBook, ePUB)

Doing Research to Understand Ethnic Communities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies five ethnic communities-South Asian Americans, African Americans, Japanese Americans, Mexican Americans, and Somoan Americans-to understand how their members feel about being studied by researchers. American society has always had tension between and among ethnic groups, and yet our researchers are given limited training, if any, on how to approach various ethnic communities, all of which see their problems and needs differently than those outside their communities. This book bridges that gap by focusing on trust-building as a necessary process in doing good community research. The building of trust requires gaining knowledge of a group's culture and history, their perspective on social problems and issues, and the proper way of interviewing its members, going well beyond the mere building of rapport. This book offers the reader culturally sensitive methods to approach interacting and interviewing members of each of these unique, multifaceted ethnic communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739143513
• Artikelnr.: 38220176

Autorenporträt

Fumiko Hosokawa is chair of the Department of Sociology at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Table of Contents
2 Preface
Chapter 3 1. Introduction
Chapter 4 2. Basic Guidelines for Doing Fieldwork
Chapter 5 3. Supervision and the Ethics of Doing Fieldwork
Chapter 6 4. The Fieldwork Experience
Chapter 7 5. Ethnic Groups and Communities
Chapter 8 6. Southeast Asians and Vietnamese
Chapter 9 7. African Americans
Chapter 10 8. Japanese Americans
Chapter 11 9. Mexican Americans
Chapter 12 10. Samoan Americans
Chapter 13 11. Building Trust
Chapter 14 About the Author
15 Index