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Interrogating Ethnography

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Interrogating Ethnography
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Today, The Annex discusses an exchange in Contexts between Northwestern law professor Steven Lubet and UC Berkeley sociologist Michael Burawoy on the need to fact-check ethnography and the legality of studying violent crimes in progress.

Read the pieces:

  • “Accuracy in Ethnography: Narratives, Documents, and Circumstances” by Lubet.
  • “Empricism and Its Fallacies” by Burawoy.

Margaret Hagerman is an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University. She wrote White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (NYU Press). Twitter: @MaggieHagerman

Jean Beaman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. Jean wrote Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France( (University of California Press). Twitter: @jean23bean

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By Dosseman – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

Mesearch and Autoethnography

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Mesearch and Autoethnography
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A discussion about the concepts of “mesearch” and “autoethnography”, and their legitimacy as a criticism of research.

False Notions of Objectivity?

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False Notions of Objectivity?



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We discuss ASA Presidential candidate Mary Romero’s platform statement, in which she calls for us to do away with “false notions of objectivity“.  The debate was recently discussed in Scatterplot.

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