The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades. Yet, at present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have few scholarly works detailing how comparison is conducted in divergent ethnographic approaches. In Beyond the Case, Corey M. Abramson and Neil Gong have gathered together several experts in field research to address these issues by showing how practitioners employing contemporary iterations of ethnographic traditions such as phenomenology, grounded theory, positivism, and interpretivism, use comparison in their works. The contributors connect the long history of comparative (and anti-comparative) ethnographic approaches to their contemporary uses. By honing in on how ethnographers render sites, groups, or cases analytically commensurable and comparable, Beyond the Case offers a new lens for examining the assumptions, payoffs, and potential drawbacks of different forms of comparative ethnography.
| ISBN: | 9780190608491 |
| Publication date: | 10th March 2020 |
| Author: | Corey M. (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona) Abramson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | Global and Comparative Ethnography |
| Genres: |
Social theory Social research and statistics Research methods: general Social and cultural anthropology Political campaigning and advertising |