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The Ethnos in the Polis : Political Ethnography as a Mode of Inquiry
Author(s) -
Baiocchi Gianpaolo,
Connor Brian T.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
sociology compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 31
ISSN - 1751-9020
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00053.x
Subject(s) - ethnography , sociology , politics , discipline , everyday life , value (mathematics) , social science , epistemology , anthropology , political science , law , philosophy , machine learning , computer science
In the social sciences, there is renewed attention to political ethnography, a research method that is based on close‐up and real‐time observation of actors involved in political processes, at times even extending the definition of these processes to move beyond categories of state, civil society, and social movements. This article examines the emergence of political ethnography from a number of disciplinary locations, such as political science, the cultural turn in sociology, and anthropology, and shows the value of this new approach for understanding how politics work in everyday life.