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Interrogating Ethnography
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
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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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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“Singapore discussion-1=” by Sheba_Also 15+Million Views is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
