Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists Reflections on Methods

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AN OBSERVATION SITUATION: WHEN THE RESEARCHER’S SCENES INTERACT Caroline De Man ABSTRACT In this paper I reflected on managing m ...

abandon my confidence in the positivistic ideal of the rational and distant observer who has a full control over herself in the ...

I sometimes crossed several social scenes, namely my places of observation, of family life, of professional activity, and so on. ...

This paper will not address questions about police officers because my focus here is on how I managed the interrelatedness betwe ...

Alongside my enthusiasm about access to the field and the process of integrating with the observed public, I was concerned about ...

resistance to being an object of research, etc.) or to characteristics attribu- ted to the population observed (social class, pr ...

from the observed actors in the field. In the latter case, this position rests on a conscious and partly strategized “presentati ...

the other scenes is to trigger a disinvestment on my part. At this stage in the observation, the welcome I receive in the field ...

not totally discredit my qualities of observer, while being a place of exper- tise of my experience of the field, and this witho ...

description of a police intervention puts into perspective my own actions, which subsequently will be discussed. The shift is go ...

of positions to adopt, or on the contrary is it the reaction to a position that is uncomfortable, to the point of being unendura ...

Once outside the action, it appeared obvious to me that I would never have spoken like that to the police officers. First, they ...

a conference believes that this data is corrupted by my unexpected action. Does not this radical option leave out other possible ...

the field scene: I’m full of confidence with the members of my family. We know each other enough to maintain relaxed relations i ...

never show disagreement or disapproval toward a colleague. If a police officer acts in a way that appears open to criticism, non ...

spontaneously express my field experience. I regretted the absence of a “risk-free” space for communication, what I saw as a spa ...

consists in a learning-by-doing process and that I had to abandon my confidence in the positivistic ideal of the rational and di ...

Jaspart, A. (2010).L’enfermement des mineurs poursuivis par la justice. Ethnographie de trois institutions de la Communaute ́fra ...

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: NOT GETTING EMOTIONALLY INVOLVED IN RESEARCH AMONG VULNERABLE YOUTH IN SOUTH AFRICA $ Diana van Dijk ABSTRAC ...