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A Dialogical Approach to the Problem of Field‐Site Typicality
Author(s) -
Tobin Joseph
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1992.6.1.46
Subject(s) - dialogical self , ethnography , ideology , field (mathematics) , sociology , class (philosophy) , key (lock) , media studies , anthropology , epistemology , social psychology , psychology , political science , computer science , law , politics , computer security , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
THE TYPICALITY OF NEIGHBORHOODS studied by anthropologists is a key methodological issue for those who deal with complex, differentiated urban systems. This article describes a video‐stimulated, multivocal solution to the problem of ethnographic field‐site typicality. As an example of this approach, the article reveals how the reactions of audiences in six Japanese cities to a video ethnography of a day in a Kyoto preschool worked to produce awareness of regional, class, and ideological differences in Japanese society, [ethnography, videotape, Japan, preschool]