Thick comparison : reviving the ethnographic aspiration / / edited by Jorg Niewohner and Thomas Scheffer.

• Superior document: International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; vol. 114
• Author: Niewöhner, Jörg.
• TeilnehmendeR: Scheffer, Thomas.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; vol. 114.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction Thickening Comparison: On The Multiple Facets Of Comparability /; Chapter One. Comparability On Shifting Grounds: How Legal Ethnography Differs From Comparative Law /; Chapter Two. Producing Multi-Sited Comparability /; Chapter Three. Re-Describing Social Practices: Comparison As Analytical And Explorative Too /; Chapter Four. Producing Alternative Objects Of Comparison In Healthcare: Following A Web-Based Technology For Asthma Treatment Through The Lab And The Clinic /; Chapter Five. Contrasts And Comparisons: Three Practices Of Forensic Investigation /; Chapter Six. Comparison In The Wild And More Disciplined Usages Of An Epistemic Practice /; Chapter Seven. Making A Comparative Object /; Chapter Eight. On Positionality And Its Comparability In The Legal Context /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282786571; 9786612786570; 9004183744
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Jorg Niewohner and Thomas Scheffer.

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, Jörg Niewöhner, Thomas Scheffer, Robert Schmidt, Estrid Sørensen, and Britt Ross Winthereik.