Approaches to Ethnography - Analysis and Representation in Participant Observation

Informationen zum Autor Colin Jerolmack is an assistant professor of sociology and environmental studies at New York University. He is the author of The Global Pigeon (Chicago, 2013), a comparative ethnography of how our relationships with animals shape city life.Shamus Khan is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School (Princeton, 2011), an ethnographic study of an elite boarding school, and coeditor of The Practice of Research: How Social Scientists Answer their Questions (with Dana Fisher, Oxford, 2013). Klappentext Approaches to Ethnography illustrates the various modes of representation and analysis that typify participant observation research. This volume concisely lays out the predominant analytic lenses that ethnographers use to explain social action. Each chapter features a prominent ethnographer delineating a distinct approach to the study of everyday life and reflecting on how their approach shapes the way they analyze and represent the field. Taken together,the collection is a practical guide that spells out how different styles of ethnography illuminate different dimensions of everyday social life for undergraduate and graduate courses on qualitative research methods. Zusammenfassung Approaches to Ethnography offers a novel way to think about and teach ethnography. It identifies eight key analytic strategies-or approaches-that ethnographers deploy to decode the social world. Each chapter features a veteran ethnographer reflecting on how one of the approaches shapes their field site selection, observations, and analysis.

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• Authors: Colin Jerolmack, Colin (Assistant Professor of Sociology Jerolmack
• Assisted by: Colin Jerolmack (Editor), Jerolmack Colin (Editor), Shamus Khan (Editor), Khan Shamus (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780190236045
• ISBN: 978-0-19-023604-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics