Gary Alan Fine - From Small Groups to Peopled Ethnography.
In Authors of the Storm, Gary Alan Fine offers an inside look at how meteorologists and forecasters predict the weather. Based on field observation and interviews at the Storm Prediction Center in Oklahoma, the National Weather Service in Washington, D.C., and a handful of midwestern outlets, Fine finds a supremely hard-working, insular clique of professionals who often refer to themselves as.
By Gary Alan Fine, Calvin Morrill and Sharmi Surianarain Abstract Despite the oft-remarked dominance of quantitative methodology during much of the Twentieth Century, qualitative analysis was the primary means by which research was conducted in the early decades of the last century.
Gary Alan Fine. Sociological Theory 28 (4):355 - 376 (2010). Treating ethnographic studies as readings of ongoing cultures, I examine how the continuing and referential features of group life (spatial arenas, relations, shared pasts) generate action and argue that local practices provide the basis for cultural extension, influencing societal.
If all politics is local, then so is almost everything else, argues sociologist Gary Alan Fine. We organize our lives by relying on those closest to us—family members, friends, work colleagues, team mates, and other intimates—to create meaning and order.
Carol Heimer, Arthur Stinchcombe, Mary Pattillo, Gary Alan Fine, Ellen Berrey, Daniel Chambliss, Barry Cohen, Alan Czaplicki, Jack Katz, members of the Northwestern Sociology Writing Seminar and Ethnography Workshop, attendees at the 2004 Terra I Zing Conference, and three anonymous reviewers all left an indelible imprint on this article, improving it for the better.
Shared Fantasy is an ethnographic description of the fantasy role-playing games community circa the early 1980s, linked to a functional, if not exactly scintillating, theory of fun and games. Fine is a sociologist, and he's interesting in the workings of status in the young, male, gaming group that he studied, and also the creation of a shared culture around an imaginary world of magic.
Subscribers Letters from Gary Alan Fine, Editor Social Psychology Quarterly June 2009 Dear Friends, The Long Goodbye. By the time the next subscribers’ letter is written, the search will be intense for the next editor of Social Psychology Quarterly. Our journal has been incredibly fortunate not only because of the high quality of the selected editors, but also because of the number of social.