ISBN:
9789004183742
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (235 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology v.114
Series Statement:
International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Ser. v.114
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Thick comparison
DDC:
305.80072
Keywords:
Ethnology ; Methodology
;
Ethnology ; Research
;
Ethnology -- Methodology
;
Ethnology -- Research
;
Electronic books
;
Ethnology
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Ethnologie
;
Methode
Abstract:
Contents; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Thickening Comparison: On the Multiple Facets of Comparability; Chapter One Comparability on Shifting Grounds: How Legal Ethnography differs from Comparative Law; Chapter Two Producing Multi-sited Comparability; Chapter Three Re-describing Social Practices: Comparison as Analytical and Explorative Tool; Chapter Four Producing Alternative Objects of Comparison in Healthcare: Following a Web-based Technology for Asthma Treatment through the Lab and the Clinic
Abstract:
Chapter Five Contrasts and Comparisons: Three Practices of Forensic InvestigationChapter Six Comparison in the Wild and more Disciplined Usages of an Epistemic Practice; Chapter Seven Making a Comparative Object; Chapter Eight On Positionality and its Comparability in the Legal Context; Index
Abstract:
In ethnographic inquiry, comparing is fraught with difficulties, never complete and often fails. Yet it remains a strangely productive mode of working. Thick comparison develops and reflects on the production of comparability as a fruitful process in ethnographic research
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