Reviews for Comparative sociology and social theory

The average rating for Comparative sociology and social theory based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-01-18 00:00:00 Randy Giesbrecht Van Maanen provides examples of three different styles of ethnographic writing: - Realist tales (kind of matter of fact, authority assumed) - Confessional tales (acknowledging the personal foibles and journey of the ethnographer with the result of actually increasing trust in the findings) - Impressionist tales (dramatically telling the story of a key event - Geertz' Balinese cockfight story being perhaps the most famous example) I know I'll find this taxonomy useful as I think about ethnography and, in fact, all types of writing.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-12-03 00:00:00 Patricia Soto Written in 1988, this book is considered a classic account of how to report ethnographic research data. Writing ethnography was historically considered a matter of "style," but Van Maanen challenges this notion and presents three methods for writing up fieldwork and participant observation data.