From How to Why
On Luminous Description and Causal Inference in Ethnography (part 2)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Katz (0000-0002-2649-610X, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-90 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138102003001003 |
| OpenAlex | W2809501332 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 227 |
| References cited | 83 |
Ethnographers often start fieldwork by focusing on descriptive tasks that will enable them to answer questions about how social life proceeds, and then they work toward explaining more formally why patterns appear in their data. Making the transition from `how?' to `why?' can be a dilemma, but the ethnographer's folk culture provides especially useful clues. By dwelling on their appreciation of especially luminous data, ethnographers can light the path to causal inference. In this, the second of a two-part article, four of seven forms for characterizing the rhetorical effectiveness of ethnographic data are illustrated and the distinctive resources they offer for causal explanation are analyzed
Dilemma · Epistemology · Ethnography · Inference · Linguistics · Rhetorical question · Social science · Social worlds · Sociology · Anthropology · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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| Unique citing works | 149 |
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| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 227 |