Beyond the case : the logics and practices of comparative ethnography
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Beyond the case : the logics and practices of comparative ethnography
(Global and comparative ethnography)
Oxford University Press, c2020
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Promise, Pitfalls, and Practicalities of Comparative Ethnography
Corey M. Abramson and Neil Gong
Section I: The Evolution of Classic Approaches to Comparison
Chapter 1: Foundations of the Behavioralist Approach to Comparative Participant Observation
Martin Sanchez-Jankowski and Corey M. Abramson
Chapter 2: Conducting Comparative Participant Observation: Behavioralist Procedures and Techniques
Corey M. Abramson and Martin Sanchez-Jankowski
Chapter 3: The Thematic Lens: A Formal and Cultural Framework for Comparative Ethnographic Analysis
Thomas DeGloma and Max Papadantonakis
Chapter 4: Comparative Ethnographic Views of Social Structure: The Challenge of Linking Micro and Macro Levels of Analysis
Aaron V. Cicourel
Section II: New and Existing Critical Approaches to Comparison
Chapter 5: An Ethnography of Comparative Ethnography: Pathways to Three Logics of Comparison
Ching Kwan Lee
Chapter 6: Critical Realism and Contrastive Ethnography: The Curious Case of Autism in Somali Refugee Communities
Claire Laurier Decoteau
Chapter 7: Sequential Comparisons and the Comparative Imagination
Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans
Section III: Contextualizing Comparison
Chapter 8: Using Computational Tools to Enhance Comparative Ethnography: Lessons from Scaling Ethnography for Biomedicine
Daniel Dohan and Alissa Bernstein
Chapter 9: Elite Ethnography: Studying Up Or Down In US And French Sociology
Lynn S. Chancer
Chapter 10: A Dialog With Aaron Cicourel On Comparative Ethnography
Aaron V. Cicourel with Corey M. Abramson
Conclusion: A Comparative Analysis of Comparative Ethnographies
Neil Gong and Corey M. Abramson
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