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Researching amongst elites : challenges and opportunities in studying up
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Researching amongst elites : challenges and opportunities in studying up

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Redirecting the academic gaze upward
"Studying up" Wall Street: reflections on theory and methodology
"Studying up" in the context of Civil War: understanding armed defense of the status quo
Getting in and finding out: accessing and interviewing elites in business and work contexts
Interviewing celebrities: strategies for getting beyond the sound bite
Examining elites using qualitative media analysis: celebrity news coverage and TMZ
Overlooking the workers: community leaders' perspectives on plant closures and economic recession
The globality of globals: from floating to escape routes
Studying immigrant entrepreneurs: from ordinary to big players in the transnational capitalist class
Productive disorientation, or the ups and downs of embodied research
Interviewing elite men: Feminist reflections on studying "up" and selling out
Turning over rocks and unsettling memories: "studying up" Euro-Canadians in the spaces between cultures
Methodological challenges faced when researching in hostile environments: the SAWP in a Canadian hinterland.

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Researching amongst elites : challenges and opportunities in studying up. ISBN 9781409429562. Published by Ashgate Pub. in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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