Shadowing: Warrants for Intersituational Variation in Ethnography

Autor/inn/en	Trouille, David; Tavory, Iddo
Titel	Shadowing: Warrants for Intersituational Variation in Ethnography
Quelle	In: Sociological Methods & Research, 48 (2019) 3, S.534-560 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-1241
DOI	10.1177/0049124115626171
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Immigrants; Hispanic Americans; Parks; Social Networks; Attribution Theory; Violence; Team Sports; Observation; Perspective Taking; Social Environment; Interpersonal Relationship; California (Los Angeles) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Freizeitpark; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Gewalt; Mannschaftssport; Beobachtung; Zukunftsperspektive; Soziales Umfeld; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	This article makes the case for shadowing as ethnographic methodology: focusing attention on what occurs as interlocutors move among settings and situations. Whereas ethnographers often zoom in on one principal set of situations or site, we argue that intersituational variation broadens and deepens the researcher's ethnographic account as well as affording important correctives to some common inferential pitfalls. We provide four warrants for shadowing: (a) buttressing intersituational claims, (b) deepening ethnographers' ability to trace meaning making by showing how meanings shift as they travel and how such shifts may affect interlocutors' understandings, (c) gaining leverage on the structure of subjects' social worlds, and (d) helping the ethnographer make larger causal arguments. We show the use value of these considerations through an analysis of violence and informal networks in an ethnography of immigrant Latinos who met to socialize and play soccer in a Los Angeles park. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01