Established Outsiders. On reproduction and transformation of ethnographic knowledge in the current American sociology.

本研究在人种志知识的范围内考察了繁殖和转化的社会动力学。因此，它的重点是代际关系之间的当前美国民族志，包括那些超越芝加哥学校。该项目旨在对民族志方法的差异进行实证描述，这在德国相对未知，以及重建分析和各种学校及其主角之间的进一步结构性联系。在所有这一切中，一个核心的角色是由既定的局外人，一个在项目特定的初步工作的框架内开发的数字：边缘化，在巩固民族志研究的阶段，仍然被认为是一个共同的认识论质量标准，并显着支持民族志自我叙述内的身份建立。与此同时，民族志学家在经济体系中的社会结构地位得到了显着改善;以前的弱势群体已经转变为既定群体。这项研究是经验的基础上叙事采访的代表和（前）学生的各种人种学方法，以及从相关会议和讲座的观察协议。因此，这种科学的社会学研究有助于在定性方法中科学知识生产过程中的经验基础上的自反性。

This research examines the social dynamics of reproduction and transformation within ethnographic knowledge. Therefore it focuses on intergenerational relationships amongst current American ethnographers, including those beyond the Chicago School. The project aims on both the empirical description of differentiation of ethnographic approaches, which are relatively unknown in Germany, as well as the reconstructive analysis and the further constitutive connection between the various schools and their protagonists. In all this, a central role is played by the established outsider, a figure developed within the framework of the project-specific preliminary works: Marginality, during a phase of consolidating the ethnographic research, is still considered to be a commonly shared epistemological quality criteria and significantly supports identity establishment within the ethnographic self-narration. At the same time the socio-structural positioning of ethnographers within the economic system significantly improved; the former underdogs have transformed into the established. The study is empirically based on narrative interviews with representatives and (former) students of various ethnographic approaches as well as on observation protocols from relevant conferences and lectures. This scientific sociological study contributes, therefore, to an empirically founded reflexivity within the processes of scientific knowledge production in qualitative methods.