Researchers should ask which differences matter before defining difference itself.
Evidence
I was interested in developing a perspective on everyday relations which did not presume in advance what the relevant terms of difference were, but which looked towards everyday life to ask what sorts of differences made a difference (Bateson 1972). Then, only in the second instance, I interrogated how such differences shaped local understandings and practices of belonging, and sociality. — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 38
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth pursuing: how an analyst avoids smuggling their own terms of difference into the field while still producing comparison.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 38
- XREF: connects to: Identification might operate at a different level than researchers measured. — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 120; Identifying racism requires prior knowledge of how a situation should have gone — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1503
Related
- Difference is better studied relationally than as exclusionary categories. (similarity 0.83)
- Difference is relational, embedded in power, and generative. (similarity 0.83)
Broader Connections
- Identification might operate at a different level than researchers measured.
#expands(0.82) — John Drury and Rupert Brown and Roberto González and Daniel Miranda, Emergent social identity and observing…, 120 - Identifying racism requires prior knowledge of how a situation should have gone
#exemplifies(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1503