Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: emergent methods in social research within and across disciplines -- Skirting a pleated text: de-disciplining an academic life / Laurel Richardson -- Getting connected: how sociologists can access the high tech élite / Trond Arne Undheim -- A sociologist among economists: some thoughts on methods, positionality, and subjectivity / Sarah Babb -- Ethnography and conversation analysis: what is the context of an utterance? / Douglas W. Maynard -- Creativity within qualitative research on families: new ideas for old methods / Sharon A. Deacon -- Sampling human experience in naturalistic settings / Tamlin Conner and Eliza Bliss-Moreau -- Feminist visualization: re-envisioning GIS as method in feminist geographic research / Mei-Po Kwan -- Practical strategies for combining qualitative and quantitative methods: applications to health research / David L. Morgan -- Performing autoethnography: an embodied methodological praxis / Tami Spry -- Exposed methodology: the body as a deconstructive practice / Wanda S. Pillow -- Ethnodrama: performed research--limitations and potential / Jim Mienczakowski -- On the listening guide: a voice-centered relational method / Carol Gilligan, Renée Spencer, M. Katherine Weinberg, and Tatiana Bertsch -- Friendship as method / Lisa M. Tillmann-Healy -- Gender imago / Niza Yanay and Nitza Berkovitch -- The personal is political: using daily diaries to examine everyday prejudice-related experiences / Lauri L. Hyers, Janet K. Swim, and Robyn K. Mallett -- Feminist media ethnography in India: exploring power, gender, and culture in the field / Radhika Parameswaran -- Conclusion: "Coming at things differently": the need for emergent methods.