What is the Place of Safety in Science: An Experiment in Group Ethnography

苏珊·西尔贝米塔民族志社会学的许多早期经典著作都是通过团队研究产生的。随着最近对民族志研究兴趣的复苏，项目再次在多地点团队中进行，尽管总体上民族志学家仍然更多地单独进入该领域。无论是团队还是个人，一些民族志学者都在继续推动方法论策略，这些策略允许发展可概括的社会学主张，并提出步骤，以便随着时间的推移复制或返回调查地点。本研究旨在探讨民族志田野调查的团队模式是否能提高民族志田野调查的效度。这项准实验将作为正在进行的一项研究的一部分来进行，这项研究的目的是发展一个管理科学实验室的环境、健康和危害的系统。该研究比较了监督和审计系统在不同科学领域的存在和后果，以解决有关法律的作用以及不同科学文化中组织和文化传播过程的问题。该项目涉及组织社会学、科学和法律的交叉领域。专门为适应研究实验室的特殊文化而设计的管理系统的创建是否能够与环境法规保持一致？这对实验室工作小组内部的关系有什么影响？如果平等就业机会法在美国工作场所的人事实践中产生了相对的同质化，因为负责任的专业人员已经成为其组织的精明解释者和富有想象力的法律创新者，那么将环境健康和安全官员引入实验室会产生类似的组织变化吗？最后，如果该系统是在单一风险管理任务下引入的，工作人员由单一办公室监督，那么根据研究方法和部门不同的不同实验室将如何体验它？更广泛的影响。民族志田野调查中的准实验提供了一个机会，可以增强我们对如何创建更可靠和有效的民族志的理解。这项研究还有助于了解如何规范通过智能机器、远程连接和虚拟世界进行交易的新组织形式。

SES- 0535780Susan SilbeyMITA number of early classics in ethnographic sociology were produced by research in teams. With the recent resurgence of interest in ethnographic research, projects are again being conducted in multi-sited teans, although by and large ethnographers still more often go into the field alone. Regardless of whether in teams or alone, some ethnographic scholars continue to press for methodological strategies that allow for the development of sociological claims that are generalizable and propose steps to replicate or return to sites of investigation over time. The study seeks to explore whether the team model of ethnogrpahic fieldwork improves the validity of ethnographic fieldwork. The quasi-experiment will be conducted as a part of an ongoing study of the development of a system for managing environmental, health and hazards in scientific laboratories. The research compares the presence and consequences of a surveillance and audit system in different scientific fields to address questions about the role of law and the processes of organizations and cultural diffusion in varying scientific cultures. The project addresses questions at the interface of the sociology of organizations, science and law. Might the creation of management system specifically designed to accommodate the particular cultures of research laboratories create consistent conformity with enviromental regulations? What is the effect on the relationships within laboratory work groups? If equal employment opportunity law has produced relative homogeneity in personnel practices in American workplaces because the responsible professionals have become astute interpreters of their organizations and imaginative legal innovators, will the introduction of environmental health and safety officers into laboratories produce similar organizational changes? Finally, if the system is introduced under a single risk management mandate with a staff supervised under a single office, how will it be experienced with different laboratories that vary by research methods and departments?Broader Impacts. The quasi-experiment in ethnographic fieldwork provides an opportunity to enhance our understanding of how to create more reliable and valid ethnographies. The research also contributes to knowledge about how to regulate new organizational forms that conduct transactions through intelligent machines, distant connections and virtual worlds.