From Methodological Stumbles to Substantive Insights: Gaining Ethnographic Access in Queer Communities
From Methodological Stumbles to Substantive Insights: Gaining Ethnographic Access in Queer Communities
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从方法论的失误到实质性的见解：在酷儿社区中获得民族志研究
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2014
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Japonica Brown–Saracino
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作者：
Japonica Brown–Saracino
这篇文章准确地展示了如何访问的问题，在这种情况下，不同的访问线人和他们居住在三个网站的场景，可以揭示实质性的调查结果。在它的特点，小城市的比较研究与越来越多的女同性恋夫妇，演员的不同和特定地点的性身份产生了不同的和特定地点的反应的研究。一体化的性身份阻碍访问，而身份政治取向facilitatedit.The文件确定了三种机制，通过性身份影响访问：直接，通过塑造线人的取向的研究课题，间接，通过影响当地的网络和机构，出现和加强当地的身份。通过阐述一个民族志学者的路径从方法论的麻烦，以实质性的洞察力，本文追溯了一个扩展和灵活的反身性，开始，但超出了研究人员的身份和角色的效用。这种反身性，文章提出，鼓励识别实质性的发现和社会理论的发展，并可以推进民族志访问的比较社会学。
This article demonstrates precisely how issues of access—in this case differential access to informants and the scenes that they populate in three sites—can reveal substantive findings. In the case it features, a comparative study of small cities with growing populations of lesbian couples, actors’ disparate and place-specific sexual identities produced disparate and place-specific responses to research. Integrationist sexual identities impeded access, whereas identity-politics orientations facilitated it. The paper identifies three mechanisms via which sexual identities influenced access: directly, by shaping informants’ orientations to the research topic, and, indirectly, by influencing local networks and institutions that emerge from and reinforce local identities. By explicating one ethnographer’s path from methodological trouble to substantive insight, the article traces the utility of an expansive and flexible reflexivity that begins with but extends beyond the researcher’s identity and role. This reflexivity, the article proposes, encourages identification of substantive findings and the development of social theory, and can advance a comparative sociology of ethnographic access.