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Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters

Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters

Name: Interrogating Ethnography: Why Evidence Matters
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780190655679
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Author: Steven Lubet
ISBN: 9780190655679

By Steven Lubet

Oxford University Press December 2017

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ISBN-13: 9780190655679
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: December 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: 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.

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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