369 - Presidential Panel. Finding Our Way: Making Theoretical Sense Out of Ethnographic Data

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Carrying out research is often much more chaotic than the textbooks suggest. In this Presidential session, five distinguished ethnographers will discuss how scholars manage to create a theoretical focus out of the massive amounts of data they collect. In addition they will reflect on the challenges of carrying out ethnography later in a career (given the constraints of daily life).

Sub Unit

• Plenary and Presidential Panels

Session Organizer

• Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania

Presider

• Andrew Deener, University of Connecticut

Individual Presentations

• Withdrawal Pains: Exiting from the Field - John Van Maanen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Finding the Hook: Reflections on Distilling Theory from Naturalistic Ethnographic Data - Leslie S. Paik, City University of New York-City College

• Blurring the Boundaries of Ethnography: Intimacy, Theory, and Politics - Timothy S. Black, Case Western Reserve University

Discussant

• Ruben A. Gaztambide-Fernandez, University of Toronto