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

本研究考察了民族志知识中再生产和转化的社会动态。因此，它关注的是当前美国人种学家之间的代际关系，包括那些超越芝加哥学派的人。该项目旨在对德国相对未知的民族志方法的差异进行实证描述，以及重建分析和各种学派及其主角之间的进一步构成联系。在所有这一切中，既定的局外人扮演着核心角色，这是一个在特定项目的初步工作框架内发展起来的人物：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，并在民族志自我叙述中显著地支持身份的建立。同时，民族志学家在经济体系中的社会结构定位显著提高；从前的弱者已变成了强者。该研究是基于对各种人种学方法的代表和（前）学生的叙述性访谈，以及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的科学知识生产过程中建立经验基础的反身性。

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.