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Colleagues,
the deadline for the Call for Papers for the 3rd ISA Forum in Vienna on Sept. 30th 2015 is approaching fast! We are organising a session on ethnography and comparison and are looking forward to receiving your less-than-300-words abstracts through the ISA homepage: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2016/webprogrampreliminary/Session7001.html
Please find infos about the session attached:
Session: Comparison in Ethnographic Research
3rd ISA Forum of Sociology
‘The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World’
Vienna, Austria 10-14 July, 2016
Session Organizers:
Barbara STEFAN, Universität Wien, Austria, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>,
Deniz SEEBACHER, University of Vienna, Austria, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Andreas STREINZER, University of Vienna, Austria, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Session Abstract
In order to identify commonalities or differences between specific cases, to understand the wider relevance of a specific phenomenon, or to criticize and assess certain social trends or qualities by means of contrasting along comparative criteria the method of comparison is of importance in ethnographic research.
This session focuses on the possibilities of assessing comparative sets of data to reach a wider understanding of social phenomena, and on the discussion of strategies for doing so. We especially invite researchers from collaborative ethnographic projects to share their experiences and methodologies of comparison. Yet, the session is also open to individual researchers engaging with the questions posed for the session. We invite a critical reflection of contemporary research constraints and the increasing need for collaborative and/or interdisciplinary projects. The following questions are of special interest for paper proposals:
Which methodologies allow for comparison in ethnographic research?
How can large scale social phenomena be addressed by research while grounding data in the specificities of everyday life?
What are insights, experiences, best and worst practices with comparative methodology?
Which sets of tools for gathering and analyzing data (e.g. the development of indicators, use of questionnaires, techniques of coding) were especially suitable to recognize relations, linkages or contrasts between cases?
Which conceptual tools allow researchers to generate theory by various approaches to comparison (see Gingrich, 2002; and also: Scheffer and Niewöhner, 2010; Gingrich and Fox, 2002; Herzfeld, 2001)?
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Andreas Streinzer
Recipient of a DOCteam fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Visiting Researcher at the Social Anthropology Laboratory, University of Thessaly, Volos (May 2015 - Feb 2016)
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna
Universitätsstraße 7
A–1010 Wien
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Tel. +43 1 4277 49526
Mob. (Austria) +43 699 117 26 939
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