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Ethnographic Research in Gendered Organizations: The Case of the Westminster Parliament

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2014

Emma Crewe
Emma Crewe*
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University of London
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Anthropologists and new institutionalist scholars studying politics share an interest in rules, norms, and power. The former tend to agree more closely with those researchers who rely on inductive empiricism rather than deductive research methods, take an historical perspective, and treat ambiguities as part of the study rather than an inconvenience. As Olivier de Sardan argues, those institutionalist approaches that tend to rely on abstract, predetermined structures contrast with the way anthropologists see social norms as emerging out of interaction between people in specific contexts (2014, 288).

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 2014 , pp. 673 - 678
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2014 

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