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- Atkinson, Paul. 1990. The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality. London: Routledge.
- Babbie, Earl. 2013. The Practice of Social Research. 13th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
- Behar, Ruth. 1996. The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart. Boston: Beacon Press.
- Bryman, Alan. 2016. Social Research Methods. 5th ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Creswell, John W. 2014. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. 4th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw. 2011. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Ferrell, Jeff, and Mark S. Hamm, eds. 1998. Ethnography at the Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
- Hine, Christine. 2000. Virtual Ethnography. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Lawson, Helene M. 2000. Ladies on the Lot: Women, Car Sales, and the Pursuit of the American Dream. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Lune, Howard, Enrique S. Pumar, and Ross Koppel, eds. 2010. Perspectives in Social Research Methods and Analysis: A Reader for Sociology. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Madden, Raymond. 2010. Being Ethnographic: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Ethnography. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Neyland, Daniel. 2008. Organizational Ethnography. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Ragin, Charles C., and Lisa M. Amoroso. 2011. Constructing Social Research: The Unity and Diversity of Method. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Rossman, Gretchen B., and Sharon F. Rallis. 2012. Learning in the Field: An Introduction to Qualitative Research. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Singleton, Royce, Jr., and Bruce C. Straits. 2017. Approaches to Social Research. 6th ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Sunstein, Bonnie S., and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater. 2012. Fieldworking: Reading and Writing Research. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
- Teddie, Charles, and Abbas Tashakkori. 2009. Foundations of Mixed Methods Research: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Van Maanen, John. 2011. Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Vogt, W. Paul, and Burke Johnson. 2011. Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology: A Nontechnical Guide for the Social Sciences. 4th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Websdale, Neil. 1998. Rural Woman Battering and the Justice System: An Ethnography. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
- Wolcott, Harry F. 2009. Writing Up Qualitative Research. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE
- Wysocki, Diane Kholos, ed. 2008. Readings in Social Research Methods. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
- Conducting Field Research: writing.colostate.edu
- Institute for Field Research: ifrglobal.org
- Sociological Research Online: socresonline.org.uk
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