Doing Fieldwork in Japan 9780824862237
Doing Fieldwork in Japan taps the expertise of North American and European specialists on the practicalities of conducti
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
1. Introduction: Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Starting Out
Taking Note of Teen Culture in Japan: Dear Diary, Dear Fieldworker
New Notes from the Underground: Doing Fieldwork without a Site
From Scrambled Messages to an Impromptu Dip: Serendipity in Finding a Field Location
Fieldwork with Japanese Religious Groups
Chance, Fate, and Undisciplined Meanderings: A Pilgrimage through the Fieldwork Maze
Navigating Bureaucratic Mazes
Getting Cooperation in Policy-Oriented Research
JET Lag: Studying a Multilevel Program over Time
Getting in and Getting along in the Prosecutors Office
In Search of the Japanese State
Doing Media Research in Japan
Asking: Surveys, Interviews, Access
Fact-Rich, Data-Poor: Japan as Sociologists’ Heaven and Hell
Beginning Trials and Tribulations: Rural Community Study and Tokyo City Survey
Research among the Bureaucrats: Substance and Process
Dealing with the Unexpected: Field Research in Japanese Politics
Studying the Social History of Contemporary Japan
Unraveling the Web of Song
Bottom Up, Top Down, and Sideways: Studying Corporations, Government Programs, and NPOs
Inquisitive Observation: Following Networks in Urban Fieldwork
Responsibility and the Limits of Identification: Fieldwork among Japanese and Japanese Brazilian Workers in Japan
Time and Ethnology: Long-Term Field Research
Appendix: Digital Resources and Fieldwork
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
CONTENTS
1. Introduction: Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Starting Out
Taking Note of Teen Culture in Japan: Dear Diary, Dear Fieldworker
New Notes from the Underground: Doing Fieldwork without a Site
From Scrambled Messages to an Impromptu Dip: Serendipity in Finding a Field Location
Fieldwork with Japanese Religious Groups
Chance, Fate, and Undisciplined Meanderings: A Pilgrimage through the Fieldwork Maze
Navigating Bureaucratic Mazes
Getting Cooperation in Policy-Oriented Research
JET Lag: Studying a Multilevel Program over Time
Getting in and Getting along in the Prosecutors Office
In Search of the Japanese State
Doing Media Research in Japan
Asking: Surveys, Interviews, Access
Fact-Rich, Data-Poor: Japan as Sociologists’ Heaven and Hell
Beginning Trials and Tribulations: Rural Community Study and Tokyo City Survey
Research among the Bureaucrats: Substance and Process
Dealing with the Unexpected: Field Research in Japanese Politics
Studying the Social History of Contemporary Japan
Unraveling the Web of Song
Bottom Up, Top Down, and Sideways: Studying Corporations, Government Programs, and NPOs
Inquisitive Observation: Following Networks in Urban Fieldwork
Responsibility and the Limits of Identification: Fieldwork among Japanese and Japanese Brazilian Workers in Japan
Time and Ethnology: Long-Term Field Research
Appendix: Digital Resources and Fieldwork
Glossary
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
