Beyond the Case

The Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography

Corey M Abramson editor Neil Gong editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:10th Mar '20

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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.

This stimulative book will make its readers think anew about the pitfalls, profits, and promise of comparison in ethnography. * Loïc Wacquant, author of Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer *
An exciting and much needed volume, Beyond the Case is the first major work in decades to spot-light comparative ethnography and the wide-ranging pluralistic developments over time. Chapter contributors-both the legendary and the new generations-pass on insights,techniques, methods, and logics of various approaches. Both beginners and experiencedethnographers will be inspired by the theoretical potential of comparative casing * Diane Vaughan, Columbia University *
An essential and usable volume for reconnecting today the ethnographic case study to the historic ambitions for it in designs of broad scale comparison. * George E. Marcus, author of Ethnography Through Thick and Thin *
Perhaps the hottest topic in contemporary ethnographic research is the possibility, the value, and the drawbacks of comparative ethnography. In Beyond the Case, Corey Abramson and Neil Gong and their well-chosen authors provide a diverse set of explanations for how and when comparative ethnographies advance description, theory, and policy analysis. This is a book that will stand the methodological test of time and every field researcher will wish to consider its arguments for their own projects and for those of their students. * Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University *

ISBN: 9780190608484

Dimensions: 243mm x 160mm x 25mm

Weight: 703g

342 pages