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ERIC EJ903808: What's Really Wrong with Ethnography? |
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by ERIC |
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In asking the provocative question: "What's wrong with |
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ethnography?" Hammersley draws attention to what he sees |
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as the conceptual and methodological confusion arising |
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from two competing strands of practice: "naive realism" |
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and "relativism". As a solution, he offers "subtle |
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realism" to steer a path through and beyond the |
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confusion. This paper presents an analysis of |
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Hammersley's work, drawing attention to some of its |
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shortcomings. These centre on two closely related issues. |
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The first is Hammersley's conflation of ontology and |
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epistemology. This results in a shallow realism that |
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ignores the ontological status of structure and its |
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relation to human practice. In contrast, Bhaskar's |
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critical realism is offered as an appropriate under |
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labourer to ethnographic theory and practice. The second |
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is Hammersley's quick dismissal of orthodox Marxism as a |
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viable theory for critical ethnography. Drawing on the |
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critical realist ideas of stratification and emergence, |
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the paper argues that Marxism is essential to any |
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worthwhile critical ethnography. (Contains 1 table and 7 |
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footnotes.) |
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Date Published: 2016-05-13 04:39:50 |
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Identifier: ERIC_EJ903808 |
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Item Size: 10751817 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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# Topics |
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ERIC Archive; Realism; Ethnography; E... |
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