Participant Observation and Interviewing¶
Becker, & Geer. (1957). Participant Observation and Interviewing: A Comparison. Human Organization.
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- Participant Observation
- The kind of knowledge the method is designed to reach is precisely the knowledge that survey and interview methods cannot access: tacit competence (skills practitioners cannot fully articulate), in-situ meaning-making (how participants interpret events as they happen rather than in retrospect), and the gap between official accounts (what people say to outsiders) and practical logic (what they do and why, visible only from inside)
This sourceBecker and Geer's argument that the participant observer's datum is more complete than data gathered by any other sociological method.
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“Such a datum gives us more information about the event under study than data gathered by any other sociological method.”
- The kind of knowledge the method is designed to reach is precisely the knowledge that survey and interview methods cannot access: tacit competence (skills practitioners cannot fully articulate), in-situ meaning-making (how participants interpret events as they happen rather than in retrospect), and the gap between official accounts (what people say to outsiders) and practical logic (what they do and why, visible only from inside)
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