Isbn: 9789004181137 - thick comparison: reviving the ethnographic aspiration (international studies in sociology and social anthropology, band 114) (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorThomas Scheffer, PhD (1995) in Sociology, University of Bielefeld. Scheffer has directed the research group Comparative Micro-Sociology of Criminal Procedures at the Free University Berlin and has recently recei.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We have come a long way from Evans-Pritchard's famous dictum that 'there is only one method in social anthropology, the comparative method - and that is impossible.' Yet a good 40 years later, qualitative social inquiry still has an uneasy relationship with comparison. This volume sets out 'thick comparison' as a means to revive 'comparing' as a productive process in ethnographic work: a process that helps to revitalise the articulation work inherent in analytical ethnographies; to vary observer perspectives and point towards 'blind spots;' to name and create 'new things' and modes of empirical work and to give way to intensified dialogues between data analysis and theorizing.Contributors are Katrin Amelang, Stefan Beck, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin, Henriette Langstrup, Jörg Niewöhner, Thomas Scheffer, Robert Schmidt, Estrid Sørensen, and Britt Ross Winthereik. …