CRIM 3652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Urban Decay, Ethnography, Hypermasculinity
15 Dec 2016
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Ethnographic accounts in policing are not the sole domain. Popular ethnography: the paradigmatic example in our current cultural context is the show, the. A lot of critical ethnographers suggest that the wire is a tremendous source of criminological knowledge, which traditional ethnographers or criminologists cannot account for. The work that traditional ethnographer produce tends to have no cultural resonance. Part of the critique that critical ethnographers raise is that what one studied is micro world: not on a larger or broader scale. Scholarly work tends to focus on one particular issue in one particular group at one particular time. The reasons for this are: ethnographic work is time-consuming, expensive, etc He was a long-form journalist: he undertook long term participant observation work in order to write his books. What he did in order to write those books was immerse himself in the field: he had to gain physical and social access.
