Emotions in fieldwork /
The history of anthropological and sociological engagement with researchers' emotions in fieldwork can be broadly divided into two substreams of enquirythe first being classified as traditional empiricism and the second as radical empiricism. Each of these traditions has approached the research...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Social and personal aspects on qualitative research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The history of anthropological and sociological engagement with researchers' emotions in fieldwork can be broadly divided into two substreams of enquirythe first being classified as traditional empiricism and the second as radical empiricism. Each of these traditions has approached the researcher's emotions and subjectivity in the field in distinct ways, which are elaborated through the two sections of this entry. The first section defines traditional empiricism and how its guiding principles have sought to approximate fieldwork as closely as possible to the more positivistic position on the researcher's subjectivity, broadly seeing the researcher's emotional reactions to the conditions of fieldwork as a potential threat to the data-gathering process and thus as something to be controlled and restrained. The entry then covers the methodological impact of ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529746006 1529746000 9781526421036 1526421038 |