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

苏珊·西尔贝米特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。随着最近对人种学研究的兴趣的重新抬头，项目再次在多个地点进行，尽管总的来说，人种学研究者仍然更多地独自进入这一领域。无论是在团队中还是在单独的团队中，一些人种学学者继续推动方法论策略，允许发展可概括的社会学主张，并建议随着时间的推移复制或返回调查地点的步骤。本研究旨在探索民族志田野工作的团队模式是否提高了民族志田野工作的有效性。准实验将作为正在进行的开发科学实验室环境、健康和危害管理系统研究的一部分进行。这项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，以解决法律的作用以及组织和文化在不同科学文化中的传播过程的问题。该项目解决了组织社会学、科学和法律之间的问题。创建专门为适应研究实验室的特定文化而设计的管理系统是否会产生与环境法规一致的一致性？这对实验室工作组内部的关系有什么影响？如果平等就业机会法导致美国工作场所的人事做法相对同质化，是因为负责任的专业人士成为了组织的敏锐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是否会产生类似的组织变化？最后，如果该系统是在单一的风险管理任务下引入的，员工由一个办公室监督，那么不同的实验室将如何体验这个系统？不同的研究方法和部门有不同的影响。民族志田野调查中的准实验为我们提供了一个机会，以增进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监管通过智能机器、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.