Studying Elites Using Qualitative Methods

STUDYING ELITES USING QUALITATIVE METHODS Rosanna Hertz Jonathan B. Imber editors ® SAGE Publications International Educational and Professional Publisher Thousand Oaks London New Delhi Contents Introduction vii ROSANNA Part I. 1. HERTZ 1 J. 18 USEEM CLEARY YEAGER and KATHY E. P. WORKMAN, HIRSCH 65 JR. Tales From the Field: Learning From Researchers' Accounts M. 40 KRAM Using Electronic Media to Support Fieldwork in a Corporate Setting PAUL 3 THOMAS Fielding Hot Topics in Cool Settings: The Study of Corporate Ethics JOHN 5. IMBER Reaching Corporate Executives PETER 4. B. Interviewing Important People in Big Companies MICHAEL 3. JONATHAN Business Elites ROBERT 2. and 72 Part II. Professional Elites 6. Stopping the Spin and Becoming a Prop: Fieldwork on Hollywood Elites JOSHUA 7. Reflections on Fieldwork in a Complex Organization: Lawyers, Ethnographic Authority, and Lethal Weapons 9. L. 111 ALDR1DGE How I Learned What a Crock Was HOWARD 94 PIERCE Negotiating Status: Social Scientists and Anglican Clergy ALAN 83 GAMSON JENNIFER 8. 81 S. 124 BECKER Part III. Community and Political Elites 131 10. "Surely You're Not in This Just to Be Helpful": Access, Rapport, and Interviews in Three Studies of Elites 133 11. Local Knowledge and Local Power: Notes on the Ethnography of Local Community Elites SUSAN ALBERT 12. OSTRANDER 171 HERZOG Exploding Anthropology's Canon in the World of the Bomb: Ethnographic Writing on Militarism HUGH 151 HUNTER Research as a Communication Act: A Study on Israeli Women in Local Politics HANNA 13. A. 187 GUSTERSON About the Contributors 206