This book provides a benchmark treatise on the relationship
between ethnography and interpretive approaches to research in the
social sciences by accomplishing four specific objectives. First,
it situates ethnography as a research method within a broader field
of methodologies, contrasting ethnography conducted and written
within an interpretive methodology against ethnography conducted
and written within a positivist methodology. Second, it maps the
range of approaches to ethnography within an interpretive
methodology with a specific emphasis on the stances interpretive
ethnographies implicitly or explicitly take on issues of truth and
power. Third, it provides readers of interpretive ethnography with
major evaluative criteria while simultaneously offering
practitioners of interpretive ethnography guidelines for conducting
and writing interpretive ethnography. And fourth, it draws on the
unique strengths of interpretive ethnography to advance a series of
provocations and questions about broader tendencies in mainstream
social science research.
In contrast to other treatments of ethnography that either
ignore or conflate the relationship between ethnography as a
research method and broader interpretive and/or positivist
methodologies, Pachirat explicitly emphasizes the distinction
between method and methodology in order to underscore the
advantages of conducting ethnography within an interpretive
framework. Rather than drawing inspiration primarily from abstract
philosophical literature, Ethnography and Interpretation relies
throughout on discussions of actual, exemplary ethnographies in the
social sciences to illustrate and animate its arguments and
propositions. This concise volume will be valuable reading for
teachers, students, and practitioners of ethnographic research
across the social sciences.
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