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Editor Observations: On Position

Editor Observations: On Position © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156913308X289032 Comparative Sociology 7 (2008) 141–149 Comparative Sociology CompSoc www.brill.nl/coso Editor Observations: On Position Taken together, the articles in this second issue of 2008 contain an exem- plary range of both cross-national comparisons and levels of analyses and methodologies: ethnographic and survey, theoretical and empirical, quali- tative and quantitative, analytical and descriptive. Still, for two reasons I wish to draw attention to the lead article by Alexander Kozin and, more particularly, his discussion of “positionality.” One reason is that the Kozin article provides something of a lead-in to the next issue, a Special Topics collection of papers titled “Th ick Com- parison: Using Ethnography for Comparative Projects” organized by Jörg Niewöhner and Th omas Scheffer at Humboldt University and Free Uni- versity in Berlin. Th is promises to be an illuminating issue for comparativ- ists in many disciplines, not only sociology but also political science and legal scholarship. After all, one of the substantive foci of their work is “law- in-action,” as the Kozin article well reflects. Th e second reason for calling attention to the Kozin article is that, in my view, the concept of “positionality” is extraordinarily important. It http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Sociology Brill

Editor Observations: On Position

Comparative Sociology , Volume 7 (2): 141 – Jan 1, 2008
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156913308X289032 Comparative Sociology 7 (2008) 141–149 Comparative Sociology CompSoc www.brill.nl/coso Editor Observations: On Position Taken together, the articles in this second issue of 2008 contain an exem- plary range of both cross-national comparisons and levels of analyses and methodologies: ethnographic and survey, theoretical and empirical, quali- tative and quantitative, analytical and descriptive. Still, for two reasons I wish to draw attention to the lead article by Alexander Kozin and, more particularly, his discussion of “positionality.” One reason is that the Kozin article provides something of a lead-in to the next issue, a Special Topics collection of papers titled “Th ick Com- parison: Using Ethnography for Comparative Projects” organized by Jörg Niewöhner and Th omas Scheffer at Humboldt University and Free Uni- versity in Berlin. Th is promises to be an illuminating issue for comparativ- ists in many disciplines, not only sociology but also political science and legal scholarship. After all, one of the substantive foci of their work is “law- in-action,” as the Kozin article well reflects. Th e second reason for calling attention to the Kozin article is that, in my view, the concept of “positionality” is extraordinarily important. It

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