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Approaches to Ethnography: Analysis and Representation in Participant Observation
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No ethnographer can record and analyze everything that she encounters in the field. We must make choices about what to look at and how to look at it, which means privileging some aspects of social life while bracketing others. Approaches to Ethnography enumerates the key analytic
strategies-which Jerolmack and Khan call approaches-that ethnographers deploy to tame the buzzing confusion of the social world. The book identifies eight approaches that typify ethnography, which it groups and compares along four axes: 1) Micro, organizational, and macro; 2) people and places, and
mechanisms; 3) dispositions and situations; and 4) reflexivity. Each approach, it is shown, enables the illumination of a distinct dimension of the social world. Every chapter is written by a seasoned ethnographer who enumerates one of the approaches and reflects on how that approach shapes their field site selection, observations, and analysis. Taken as a whole, the chapters show how these approaches, which operate more like sensitizing devices than
theoretical mandates, can play a greater role in guiding the kinds of questions that get asked and answered in the field than whether one adopts an inductive or deductive stance toward theory. Engaging, accessible, and often inspiring, Approaches to Ethnography offers a practical and novel way to
teach, evaluate, and conceptualize ethnographic research.
Author: Colin Jerolmack
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/20/2017
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780190236052
Answer their Questions (with Dana Fisher, Oxford, 2013).
strategies-which Jerolmack and Khan call approaches-that ethnographers deploy to tame the buzzing confusion of the social world. The book identifies eight approaches that typify ethnography, which it groups and compares along four axes: 1) Micro, organizational, and macro; 2) people and places, and
mechanisms; 3) dispositions and situations; and 4) reflexivity. Each approach, it is shown, enables the illumination of a distinct dimension of the social world. Every chapter is written by a seasoned ethnographer who enumerates one of the approaches and reflects on how that approach shapes their field site selection, observations, and analysis. Taken as a whole, the chapters show how these approaches, which operate more like sensitizing devices than
theoretical mandates, can play a greater role in guiding the kinds of questions that get asked and answered in the field than whether one adopts an inductive or deductive stance toward theory. Engaging, accessible, and often inspiring, Approaches to Ethnography offers a practical and novel way to
teach, evaluate, and conceptualize ethnographic research.
Author: Colin Jerolmack
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/20/2017
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780190236052
About the Author
Colin Jerolmack is Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at New York University and the author of The Global Pigeon. His current ethnographic research project focuses on how shale gas extraction (fracking) impacts rural community life.
Answer their Questions (with Dana Fisher, Oxford, 2013).
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