The responsibilities of sociological poets
The responsibilities of sociological poets
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社会学诗人的责任
DOI：
10.1007/bf02404488
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发表时间：
1995
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
M. Schwalbe
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作者：
M. Schwalbe
我的论点是，我们不能通过写诗来满足我们作为定性社会学家的目标和责任。我认为，我们的责任包括通过揭露和分析支撑社会世界的意义框架来创造进入社会世界的机会;尽可能清晰易懂地写作;让外人了解我们的行业规则。诗歌在这些事情上失败了，因为它隐藏了它的基础，作为一种受限制的代码发挥作用，并将形式置于分析内容之上。我使用月桂·理查森（Laurel Richardson）的作品作为发展我的论点的陪衬，他是定性社会学中使用诗歌的倡导者。我的结论是，虽然我们可以在研究中使用诗歌，但要满足定义我们的工艺和学科的目标和责任，唯一的方法就是写更好的散文。
My contention is that we can't meet our aims and responsibilities as qualitative sociologists by writing poetry. I propose that our responsibilities include creating access to social worlds by exposing and analyzing the frameworks of meaning that uphold those worlds; writing as clearly and accessibly as we can; and making the rules of our craft known to outsiders. Poetry fails at these things because it keeps its foundations hidden, functions as a restricted code, and gives primacy to form over analytic content. I use the work of Laurel Richardson, an advocate for the use of poetry in qualitative sociology, as a foil for developing my argument. My conclusion is that, while there are ways we can use poetry in our research, the only way to meet the aims and responsibilities that define our craft and discipline is to write better prose.