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Achter de schermen van stadsetnografisch onderzoek

Auteurs

  • Brunt,Emma
  • Brunt,Lodewijk

Trefwoorden:

Urban, Ethnography, Researchers, Informants, Relationships, Urban ethnographic research, Researcher/informant relationship

Samenvatting

Professional codes of sociologists & anthropologists specify how researchers should behave toward their informants. Since B. Malinowski's days, there has been a wide discrepancy between the rules & reality of fieldwork. In real life situations it is usually impossible to give priority to the interests of informants but few social scientists acknowledge this in their reports. Only recently have United States urban ethnographers shown a tendency to expose their actual fieldwork practices. The imagery of cooperation between researcher & informants has been replaced by one of disharmony & conflicting interests. An attempt is made to explain this change in outlook. It is argued that social scientists find themselves doing fieldwork in highly delineated circumstances. One single professional code could not provide for all situations. Hence it might be profitable to develop some kind of grounded ethics to bridge the ever widening gap between the rules & realities of social research. Modified HA.

Biografieën auteurs

Brunt,Emma

Brunt,Lodewijk

Gepubliceerd

1978-09-01

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Sectie

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