Introduction: On Being Open to Disruption, Margaret K. Nelson and Rosanna Hertz Part I: Changing Subjects, Changing Relationships, Changing Worlds 1. From a Study to a Journey: Holding an Ethnographic Gaze on Urban Poverty for Two Decades, Timothy Black 2. Conflicted Selves: Trust and Betrayal in Studying the Hare Krishna, E. Burke Rochford Jr. 3. Returns, Joanna Dreby 4. Studying My Home Town, Albert Hunter 5.

Breaching Boundaries and Dowsing for Stories on the Great Plains, Karen V. Hansen Part II: Changing Methods, Changing Frameworks 6. Disrupting Scholarship, Susan E. Bell 7. A Sociology of Inclusion and Exclusion through the Lens of the Maid's Daughter, Mary Romero 8. Getting to the Dark Side of the Moon: Researching the Lives of Women in Cartography, Will C. van den Hoonaard 9. Getting It Right, Pamela Stone 10.

""Breakfast at Elmo's"": Adolescent Boys and Disruptive Politics in the Kinscripts' Narrative, Linda M. Burton and Carol B. Stack Part III: Reflections on Disruptions: Time and Craft 11. History on a Slow Track, Emily K. Abel 12. A Serendipitous Lesson, Or How What We Do Shapes What We Know: Reflections on Interviews as a Method for Qualitative Sociology, Margaret K. Nelson 13. Paying Forward and Paying Backward, Rosanna Hertz 14.

Rethinking Families: A Slow Journey, Naomi Gerstel 15. Time to Find Words, Marjorie L. DeVault 16. The Days Are Long, but the Years Fly By: Reflections on the Challenges of Doing Qualitative Research, Annette Lareau.