Ethnography

Leon Redbone, Fact Checking, and Ethnography
News
June 10, 2019

Leon Redbone, Fact Checking, and Ethnography

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Are Ethnographers Ever Wrong?
Communication
February 28, 2018

Are Ethnographers Ever Wrong?

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Nick Seaver on Dissecting the Algorithmic Organism
Communication
February 16, 2018

Nick Seaver on Dissecting the Algorithmic Organism

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Making Sense of Society: Ruben Schneider
Career
April 14, 2017

Making Sense of Society: Ruben Schneider

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The Stories We Tell, the Lives We Lead

The Stories We Tell, the Lives We Lead

Why does the Homeric of ‘violent’ seem so wedded to the term ‘street gang’? Criminologist Timothy Lauger answered that question in part in a an award-winning paper that looked at the stories gang members tell themselves.

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Peter Lunt on Erving Goffman

Peter Lunt on Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman has been called the most influential American sociologist of the 20th century thanks to his study of the social interactions of everyday life. In this Social Science Bites podcast, social psychologist Peter Lunt discusses his own inquiries into Goffman and how he approached his subjects with “an ethnographer’s eye.”

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The Tightrope of Studying Subjects at Legality’s Fringe

The Tightrope of Studying Subjects at Legality’s Fringe

Social scientists don’t always study subjects whose actions please the authorities. Is the freedom to associate with these people for research purposes under attack? Should researchers have their own ‘shield law’?

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Administrative Science Quarterly June Issue Now Online!

Administrative Science Quarterly June Issue Now Online!

Volume 58, No. 2 (June 2013) of Administrative Science Quarterly is now available online. We hope you will find this issue insightful […]

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Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?

Edward Hopper: An ethnographic sensibility?

This is not a body of work that instructs us what to think – it invites us to ask the question that an ethnographer would ask: confronted with this scene, what is going on here?

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Provoked by Boredom: Experiences from Youth Confinement

Provoked by Boredom: Experiences from Youth Confinement

Study finds boredom is a key experience in daily life in secure care and young people deal with their boredom through the generation of risk-taking action.

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Rebel Manhood

Rebel Manhood

With poverty now rising to levels not seen in a generation, many scholars are revisiting the still controversial theories connecting culture to class. Currently the great recession is accelerating the outsourcing and deindustrialization that has been decimating the economic well-being of all Americans for almost a generation.

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Emancipatory Islam: How Yemeni-American Women Balance their American Dreams

Emancipatory Islam: How Yemeni-American Women Balance their American Dreams

A qualitative study highlights the narratives of 20 Yemeni-American second-generation women in Detroit.

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