Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters

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Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters

By Steven Lubet
Oxford University Press December 2017

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9780190655686
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Oxford University Press
Publication
December 2017
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Hardback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In this comprehensive review of urban ethnography, Steven Lubet encountered a field that relies heavily on anonymous sources, often as reported by a single investigator whose underlying data remain unseen. Upon digging into the details, he discovered too many ethnographic assertions that were dubious, exaggerated, tendentious, or just plain wrong. Employing the tools and techniques of a trial lawyer, Lubet uses original sources and contemporaneous documentation to explore the stories behind ethnographic narratives. Many turn out to be accurate, but others are revealed to be based on rumors, folklore, and unreliable hearsay.

Interrogating Ethnography explains how qualitative social science would benefit from greater attention to the quality of evidence, and provides recommendations for bringing the field more closely in line with other fact-based disciplines such as law and journalism.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Ethnographic Trial
Chapter One: Testimony
Chapter Two: Opinion and Documentation
Chapter Three: Unreliability
Chapter Four: Credulity
Chapter Five: Selectivity
Chapter Six: Rumors and Folklore
Chapter Seven: Anonymity
Chapter Eight: Criminality
Conclusion: Toward Evidence-Based Ethnography
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