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Event and process

an exercise in analytical ethnography

Thomas Scheffer

pp. 167-197

Abstract

Analytical ethnography does not presume a principal analytical frame. It does not know (yet) where and when the field takes place. Rather, the ethnographer is in search for appropriate spatiotemporal frames in correspondence with the occurrences in the field. Accordingly, the author organizes a dialogue between conceptual frames and his various empirical accounts. He confronts snapshots of English Crown Court proceedings with models of event and process from micro-sociology and macro-sociology. A range of–more or less early or late, relevant or irrelevant, contingent or predetermined–processual events serves as the vantage point to access event and process relations. In this line, Crown Court proceedings serve as an introductory and exemplary field for analytical ethnography, because they involve both: (strong) events and their process and (strong) processes and their events.

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(2007) Human Studies 30 (3).

Pages: 167-197

DOI: 10.1007/s10746-007-9055-8

Full citation:

Scheffer Thomas (2007) „Event and process: an exercise in analytical ethnography“. Human Studies 30 (3), 167–197.