A pragmatic mixed-method frame produced realistic accounts of how youths become muggers

Evidence

It is this pragmatic approach, an ethnographic orientation combined with varieties of sociology and media studies framed by a Marxist approach to conjunctural analysis, which seems to have confused some of our advocates and critics. But its strength would seem to be evident, not least in the apparent realism of our “typical biography of the youth who ends up mugging,” which one reviewer thought was “one of the most realistic-looking accounts of crime … [he] had ever seen.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1044

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method