Author: Sørensen, Estrid

Source: Comparative Sociology, Volume 7, Number 3, 2008 , pp. 311-337(27)

Publisher: BRILL

Abstract:

George Marcus (1995) emphasizes that multi-sited ethnography embodies within itself a comparative dimension. For our general understanding of comparison, however, multi-sited ethnography lacks a crucial component: a grounding or tertium comparationis. This article proposes a multi-sited comparison which does not take as its point of departure any tertium comparationis but instead identifies this as an outcome. The method of comparison was developed amidst a multisited ethnography of "doing regulation," here with reference to computer games and the regulatory purpose of protecting minors from harmful media content.

Keywords: MULTI-SITED ETHNOGRAPHY; COMPARISON; GEORGE MARCUS; REGULATION; COMPUTER GAMES; PROTECTION OF MINORS

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156913308X306645

Affiliations: 1: Department for European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin, Mohrenstrasse 40, 10117 Berlin, Germany;, Email: estrid.sorensen@staff.hu-berlin.de

Publication date: 2008-06-01

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