SA 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ethnography, Inductive Reasoning, Inculturation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 255
• Professor: Nicholas Scott

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Pragmatic approach = focusing on technical factors of methodological integrations versus philosophical diffs. Some ppl believe that the philosophical diffs b/w the methods are too deep and cannot be worked with. Only by working together do you realize that all perspectives are right in their own way and by combining them together you get the entire holistic picture. The kinds of questions we want answered, put in motion what methods, or. Complex of methods (brannen, 2005) are appropriate and effective to use. How imp is estimating the frequency of a behaviour, or generalizing an association to a population, or understanding how a particular culture (say, Paradigm wars (more heat than light): qual & quant make fundamentally incompatible assumptions about the world. Eg. numbers vs text, meaning vs behaviour, nomothetic (general laws that transcend time and nature?) vs idiographic knowledge, induction vs deduction . In your own experience, what practical factors have led you to your relationship for.