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maternity’ (unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Birmingham, 1978); also current
Ph.D topic.
7 R.H.Grimshaw, ‘The social meaning of scouting: ethnographic and contextual
analysis relating to a Midlands industrial city’ (unpublished Ph.D thesis, University
of Birmingham 1978).
8 S.Hall and T.Jefferson, Resistance Through Rituals (Hutchinson 1976).

Chapter 5
Notes on method

1 See the ritual acceptance in most mainstream methodology texts of the role of
‘quantitative methods’—even if their use is to be limited to ‘pilot’ or ‘descriptive’
studies. See, for instance, Selltiz et al. (eds.), Research Methods in Social Relations
(Metheun 1966), ch. 3; J.Madge, The Tools of Social Science (Longman 1965), ch.
3.
2 For a useful discussion on ‘objectivity’ in positivism, see A.W.Gouldner, The
Coming Crisis of Western Sociology (Heinemann 1970), pp. 102–4.
3 WPCS, nos. 7 and 8, reprinted as Resistance Through Rituals (Hutchinson 1976).
4 See, for instance, C.R.Shaw, The Jack-Roller (University of Chicago Press 1966);
W.I.Thomas and F.Ananiecki, The Polish Peasant in Europe and America
(University of Chicago Press 1927); F.M.Thrasher, The Gold Coast and the Slum:
A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago (University of Chicago Press 1928);
N.Anderson, The Hobo (University of Chicago Press 1923).
5 W.F.Whyte, Street Corner Society (London: University of Chicago Press 1969).
6 See, for instance, H.S.Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance
(Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press 1966); H.S.Becker et al., Boys in White (University of
Chicago Press 1961); H.S.Becker et al., Making the Grade (New York: John Wiley
1965); N.Polsky, Hustlers, Beats and Others (Penguin 1971).
7 See D.Downes, The Delinquent Solution (Routledge and Kegan Paul 1966).
8 See S.Cohen (ed.), Images of Deviancy (Penguin 1971); S.Cohen, Folk Devils and
Moral Panics (Paladin 1973); P.Rock and M.McIntosh (ed.), Criminology and the
Sociology of Deviance in Britain (Tavistock 1974); L.Taylor (ed.), Politics and
Deviance (Penguin 1973).
9 See, for instance, M.A.Plant, Drug-takers in an English Town (Tavistock 1974);
J.Patrick, A Glasgow Gang Observed (Eyre Metheun 1973); H.J. Parker, View from
the Boys (David and Charles 1974).
10 G.J.McCall, J.L.Simmons (eds.), Issues in Participant Observation (Addison-
Wesley 1969); W.J.Filstead (ed.), Qualitative Methodology (Markham 1979).
11 My emphasis. B.G.Glaser and A.L.Strauss, ‘Discovery of substantive theory: a
basic strategy underlying qualitative research’, in Filstead, Qualitative
Methodology, p. 304 note.
12 See the literature on ‘working hypotheses’, and especially B.Geer, ‘First days in the
field’, in G.J.McCall and J.L.Simmons (eds.), Issues in Participant Observation: A
Text and Reader (Addison-Wesley 1969).
13 See H.Blumer, ‘What is wrong with social theory’, in Filstead, Qualitative
Methodology.
14 See McCall and Simmons, Issues in Participant Observation, chs. 2 and 3.