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`Don't Ask a Woman to Do Another Woman's Job': Gendered Interactions and the Emotional Ethnographer (2009)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2009). `Don't Ask a Woman to Do Another Woman's Job': Gendered Interactions and the Emotional Ethnographer. Sociology, 43(3), 497-513. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038509103205

This article contributes to the reflexive turn within the social sciences by arguing for enhanced recognition of the role of gender and emotions in the research process. The chief instrument of research, the ethnographer herself, may alter that which... Read More about `Don't Ask a Woman to Do Another Woman's Job': Gendered Interactions and the Emotional Ethnographer.

‘Do We Look like Boy Racers?’ The Role of the Folk Devil in Contemporary Moral Panics (2009)
Journal Article
Lumsden, K. (2009). ‘Do We Look like Boy Racers?’ The Role of the Folk Devil in Contemporary Moral Panics. Sociological Research Online, 14(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.1840

This article addresses the failure of studies concerning moral panics to take into account the reaction of those individuals who are the subject of social anxiety. It responds to the suggestion by McRobbie and Thornton (1995) that studies of moral pa... Read More about ‘Do We Look like Boy Racers?’ The Role of the Folk Devil in Contemporary Moral Panics.