Les coûts subjectifs de l’enquête ethnographique

Field research always implies the personal and long-term commitment of the researcher, and thus a minimal socialization in the world investigated. In a research in activist movement, which goal is to produce commitment, these socialization can be very strong, especially when the researcher was still...

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Main Author: Bénédicte Havard-Duclos
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2007-06-01
Series:Sociologies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/182
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Summary:Field research always implies the personal and long-term commitment of the researcher, and thus a minimal socialization in the world investigated. In a research in activist movement, which goal is to produce commitment, these socialization can be very strong, especially when the researcher was still an activist in the starting up of the field work. Through the telling the story of progress of the research and psycho-moral states crossed during this one, are here given to see the conditions making possible the activist loyalty and the subjective and ethical costs connected to the break with the field, which is a necessity of the act of writing.
ISSN:1992-2655