Thick Comparison: Reviving the Ethnographic Aspiration
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We have come a long way from Evans-Pritchard s famous dictum that there is only one method in social anthropology, the comparative method - and that is impossible. Yet a good 40 years later, qualitative social inquiry still has an uneasy relationship with comparison. This volume sets out thick comparison as a means to revive comparing as a productive process in ethnographic work: a process that helps to revitalise the articulation work inherent in analytical ethnographies; to vary observer perspectives and point towards blind spots; to name and create new things and modes of empirical work and…mehr

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We have come a long way from Evans-Pritchard s famous dictum that there is only one method in social anthropology, the comparative method - and that is impossible. Yet a good 40 years later, qualitative social inquiry still has an uneasy relationship with comparison. This volume sets out thick comparison as a means to revive comparing as a productive process in ethnographic work: a process that helps to revitalise the articulation work inherent in analytical ethnographies; to vary observer perspectives and point towards blind spots; to name and create new things and modes of empirical work and to give way to intensified dialogues between data analysis and theorizing. Contributors are Katrin Amelang, Stefan Beck, Kati Hannken-Illjes, Alexander Kozin, Henriette Langstrup, J rg Niew hner, Thomas Scheffer, Robert Schmidt, Estrid S rensen, and Britt Ross Winthereik.
Autorenporträt
Thomas Scheffer, PhD (1995) in Sociology, University of Bielefeld. Scheffer has directed the research group Comparative Micro-Sociology of Criminal Procedures at the Free University Berlin and has recently received a Heisenberg Scholarship to move to the Humboldt University Berlin. Jörg Niewöhner, PhD (2001) in Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, works and teaches at the Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin. His current comparative ethnographic research focuses on cardiovascular prevention practices in the everyday life of research, clinic and general practice.