Interpretation and Method Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn

ETHNOGRAPHY, IDENTITY, AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE 253 Fear and distrust were the cost of admission (“entrée”) to my researc ...

254 ANALYZING DATA He thought he was doing me a favor, helping me out. I cannot describe how I felt at that moment. After I had ...

ETHNOGRAPHY, IDENTITY, AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE 255 employees, the presence of their wives and/or unmarried girls and the ...

256 ANALYZING DATA Unfortunately for Gamal, some names have no religious meaning or connotation (such as Gamal or Samer for inst ...

ETHNOGRAPHY, IDENTITY, AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE 257 fully described in Orientalism, racist tales were standard fare in th ...

258 ANALYZING DATA male, Muslim, Egyptian-American, a researcher with a certain class background, from a particu- lar region in ...

ETHNOGRAPHY, IDENTITY, AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE 259 Egyptian worker in the way that a few early anthropologists mistakenl ...

260 ANALYZING DATA Finally, through my fieldwork and my reflections on the productive nature of identity in the field, I have co ...

ETHNOGRAPHY, IDENTITY, AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE 261 hope, is that one should also observe the participation—the interacti ...

262 ANALYZING DATA After Fathy asked about milk consumption in the United States, he said, “I would be lying to you if I told y ...

ETHNOGRAPHY, IDENTITY, AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE 263 Egypt, like much of the Third World, has experienced mind-boggling r ...

264 ANALYZING DATA 264 CHAPTER 14 MAKING SENSE OF MAKING SENSE Configurational Analysis and the Double Hermeneutic PATRICK THADD ...

MAKING SENSE OF MAKING SENSE 265 that the stability of social life simply could not be reduced to any system of equations. Certa ...

266 ANALYZING DATA But there is more going on here than might be apparent at first. In a way, Schumacher’s out- burst fed direct ...

MAKING SENSE OF MAKING SENSE 267 clarifying the other. Inasmuch as active interpretation is closely linked to agency, this chall ...

268 ANALYZING DATA an instrumental means through which to achieve our ends. As such, they are “transparent” —blind people do not ...

MAKING SENSE OF MAKING SENSE 269 situation (Kondo 1990). Such research has as its primary goal to make explicit and visible the ...

270 ANALYZING DATA Consider those approaches that minimize the importance of the hermeneutic circle between the social actor and ...

MAKING SENSE OF MAKING SENSE 271 activity within which the stabilization of social relations takes place (Shotter 1993a; Tilly 2 ...

272 ANALYZING DATA First, it is necessary to delineate the cultural resources—and in particular the rhetorical commonplaces—dra ...