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Participant Observation

2014
Abstract A growing number of scholars use participant observation when studying movements. Through active participation, researchers attempt to gain insights into mobilization processes as they take place, and understand activism from within. This chapter offers a practical guide to doing participant observation in social movements.
BALSIGER, Philip, LAMBELET, Alexandre
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Participant Observation, Observant Participation, and Hybrid Ethnography

Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
How much should ethnographers involve themselves with the people, places, and processes they study? One answer has become increasingly popular: invert the standard method of participant observation into observant participation. This article draws on an ethnography of ambulance work to consider the trade-offs between these approaches.
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Strategies of Participation in Participant Observation

Sociological Methods & Research, 1972
Participant observation is approached by considering five strategies of participation, as reflected in the writings of field workers in the social sciences. The strategies considered are: (1) gaining access to data, (2) evoking behavior, (3) identifying psychologically with the people being studied, (4) connecting concepts with indicators, and (5 ...
Daniel S. Claster, Howard Schwartz
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The Meaning of "Participation" in Participant Observation

Qualitative Health Research, 1995
Whether writers have a postmodernist orientation or a residual concern to defend the technique against positivist criticisms as providing unequivocal scientific data, theoretically systematic accounts of participant observation in terms of its nature as a social activity carried out by conscious human agents are missing from the literature of health ...
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Participant Observation

Fieldwork in Religion, 2022
This article reflects on the method of participant observation (PO) and how the author has interpreted and practiced it throughout her career as an anthropologist of religion. The article concentrates on the embodied insights afforded by PO, as well as the physical, existential and ontological challenges of the PO method.
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Participant Observation

Anthropological Quarterly, 1980
Nicola Tannenbaum, James P. Spradley
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“Living in the brothel”: Participant observation in hidden contexts

Social Science Journal, 2021
Carmen Meneses-Falcón
exaly  

Using non-participant observation to uncover mechanisms: Insights from a realist evaluation

Evaluation, 2020
Melanie Handley   +2 more
exaly  

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