The extended case method : four countries, four decades, four great transformations, and one theoretical tradition /

Main Author: Burawoy, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : bringing theory to the field
  • Introduction : from Manchester to Berkeley by way of Chicago
  • 1. The extended case method : race and class in postcolonial Africa
  • 2. The ethnographic revisit : capitalism in transition and other histories
  • 3. Two methods in search of revolution : Trotsky versus Skocpol
  • 4. Multicase ethnography : tracking the demise of state socialism
  • Conclusion : the ethnography of great transformations
  • Epilogue : on public ethnography.