Conspicuous Invisibility Shadowing as a Data Collection Strategy
Conspicuous Invisibility Shadowing as a Data Collection Strategy
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DOI：
10.1177/1077800408318318
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发表时间：
2008-12-01
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2
通讯作者：
Quinlan, Elizabeth
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作者：
Quinlan, Elizabeth
影子研究指的是研究人员在一段时间内密切跟踪一个对象，调查人们在日常生活中实际做了什么，而不是他们的角色要求他们做什么。行为、意见、行动以及对这些行动的解释都反映在由此产生的厚厚的描述性数据中。很少有文字描述将影子作为一种数据收集策略的使用；本文将着手对这一缺陷作出回应。基于影子经历，本文探讨了引人注目的不可见性的维度：在那里但不在那里，在接近对象的范围内协商距离，在形成持久友谊的同时保持研究人员的身份。它认为，影子作为一种数据收集技术对机构人种学是有用的。
Shadowing entails a researcher closely following a subject over a period of time to investigate what people actually do in the course of their everyday lives, not what their roles dictate of them. Behaviors, opinions, actions, and explanations for those actions are reflected in the resulting thick, descriptive data. There is little written that describes the uses of shadowing as a data collection strategy; this article sets out to respond to this deficit. Based on shadowing experiences, the article explores the dimensions of conspicuous invisibility: being there but not being there, negotiating distance within the proximity to subjects, and maintaining an identity as a researcher while forming enduring friendships. It argues that shadowing is useful as a data collection technique for institutional ethnography.