David Wästerfors
Professor
Designing for observation
Författare
Redaktör
- Uwe Flick
Summary, in English
Design can be tricky for qualitative researchers who want to use observations. In the academic world we are often asked to have linear ambitions: proposals, applications, personal websites and presentations. But good practice in ethnography means documenting social life as process, not as a box, and grasping people’s active “doing” of social life rather than rendering it reducible or machinelike. In this chapter I explore a set of accounting procedures for designing observational studies that I find accessible and productive for dealing with this and other dilemmas, and I also explore a kind of flexible preparedness that many projects most likely will benefit from. I try to clarify hands-on ways of managing the design task in this area, I exemplify how to account for the method in advance and how to employ such accounts in practice, and I discuss how to set up a feasible project in terms of getting close to phenomena and sustaining field relations.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologi
Publiceringsår
2022
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
716-730
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design
Volym
2
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-1-5264-8432-1