Working Method
Research and Social Justice
Critical Social Thought Series

Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research.

Introduction: Compositional Studies in Four Parts: Critical Theorizing and Analysis on Social (In)Justice, Lois Weis and Michelle Fine Section One: Full Composition and Initial Fracturing 1: Dear Zora: A Letter to Zora Neale Hurston Fifty Years after Brown, Michelle Fine, Janice Bloom, April Burns, Lori Chajet, Monique Guishard, Tiffany Perkins-Munn and María Elena Torre Section Two: Deep Work Within a Fracture 2: Race, Gender and Critique: African American Women, White Women, and Domestic Violence in the 1980s and 1990s, Lois Weis 3: Civics Lessons: The Color and Class of Betrayal, Michelle Fine, April Burns, Yassar Payne and María Elena Torre Section Three: Designs for Historic Analysis 4: Gender, Masculinity and the New Economy, Lois Weis Section Four: Designs to Document Sites of Possibility 5: Participatory Action Research: From Within and Beyond Prison Bars, Michelle Fine, María Elena Torre, Kathy Boudin, Iris Bowen, Judith Clark, Donna Hylton, Migdalia Martinez, Missy Melissa Rivera, Rosemarie A. Roberts, Pamela Smart, and Debora Upegui 6: Extraordinary Conversations in Public Schools, Lois Weis and Michelle Fine Epilogue Notes

Lois Weis is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, State
University of New York.

Michelle Fine is Professor of Social-Personality Psychology at the City University of New York, Graduate Center.