Methodology Lightning Round

Question 1

Émile Durkheim

Answer 1

Treat social facts as external ‘things’ for disciplined detachment

Question 2

Thomas Kuhn

Answer 2

Use paradigm shifts to question who gets to name facts

Question 3

Michael Burawoy

Answer 3

Fold field anomalies back into grand theory to reflexively extend cases

Question 4

Robben & Sluka

Answer 4

Log feelings because data are never raw

Question 5

Clifford Geertz

Answer 5

Write thick description to map webs of meaning

Question 6

Writing Culture collective

Answer 6

Expose literary devices that shape ethnographic truth

Question 7

George E. Marcus

Answer 7

Track multi-sited flows across space and scale

Question 8

Gayatri Spivak

Answer 8

Check for ventriloquism that silences the subaltern

Question 9

Irfan Ahmad

Answer 9

Interrogate method as disguised geopolitics

Question 10

Sarah Pink

Answer 10

Audit digital interfaces as field structures

Question 11

Emerson Fretz & Shaw

Answer 11

Split observation and analysis with double-entry notes

Question 12

H. Russell Bernard

Answer 12

Blend surveys and observation; sample reflexively

Question 13

Howard S. Becker

Answer 13

Ask how not why and list your assumptions first

Question 14

Paul Thompson

Answer 14

Let interviewees amend transcripts to balance power

Question 15

John Scott

Answer 15

Read archives for both voices and silences

Question 16

Recep Şentürk

Answer 16

Combine longue durée with immediate context via multiplexity

Question 17

Immanuel Wallerstein

Answer 17

Cross disciplinary borders for a world-system vantage