Ethnography reveals identity aspects invisible to conventional psychological approaches

Evidence

Ethnography can capture both objective and subjective aspects of Roma identity. They can reveal aspects of identity categories that would remain invisible to conventional approaches to identity. They also show that identity categories are sourced in the complex and symbolic social imaginary of societies. Ethnographers can describe a varied anthropological world of people and social relations that are not necessarily tied to psychological mental processes. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 726

Categorization

• SEED: Possible essay angle: why the crime of failing to describe field-observed identities is a methodological, not just data, problem for psychology.
• XREF: connects to: Ethnographic interviews aim at informants’ self-understanding, not factual truth. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 947; Ethnographic study of tech culture requires in-person witnessing, not just digital observation. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 29; Interviews probed deradicalization as life-course narrative from early life to exit — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 270