Schaffer's elucidating social science concepts: Notes of a conceptualist in the field

I am quite sympathetic to many aspects of the anthropological and ethnographic approach defended by Fred Schaffer in his Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide. Much of my methods work is motivated and informed by what I call “methodological anthropology,” which I define as the examination of the practices of social scientists and philosophers regarding concept formation and construction.