TY - CHAP
T1 - FEELING PRECARIOUS IN ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH METHODS AND IN PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES
T2 - IDEAL TYPES AND REAL WORLD COMPLEXITY
AU - Jankowski, Krzysztof Z.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 by Krzysztof Z. Jankowski.
PY - 2023/12/12
Y1 - 2023/12/12
N2 - This chapter discusses the impact of the sociological imagination and ethnographic research methods on identifying the ‘real’ nature of conceptualized phenomena. The examination is done by comparing the researcher’s experience of work-related precarity in ethnographic methods and in the researcher’s personal circumstances immediately following the fieldwork. Such a juxtaposition shows what had been emphasized by ethnography and the effects of the researcher’s social context on the concepts under study. In the case of fieldwork, many of the practical difficulties of precarious work were encountered. However, the context of being an ethnographer altered how work precarity was felt. In the personal circumstances that followed the fieldwork, precariousness was strongly felt in a more general manner. This occurred in a discrete event that involved multiple factors of employment, housing, institutions relied on, and personal relationships.
AB - This chapter discusses the impact of the sociological imagination and ethnographic research methods on identifying the ‘real’ nature of conceptualized phenomena. The examination is done by comparing the researcher’s experience of work-related precarity in ethnographic methods and in the researcher’s personal circumstances immediately following the fieldwork. Such a juxtaposition shows what had been emphasized by ethnography and the effects of the researcher’s social context on the concepts under study. In the case of fieldwork, many of the practical difficulties of precarious work were encountered. However, the context of being an ethnographer altered how work precarity was felt. In the personal circumstances that followed the fieldwork, precariousness was strongly felt in a more general manner. This occurred in a discrete event that involved multiple factors of employment, housing, institutions relied on, and personal relationships.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85179151278
U2 - 10.1108/S0277-283320230000035008
DO - 10.1108/S0277-283320230000035008
M3 - Chapter in an edited book (as author)
AN - SCOPUS:85179151278
T3 - Research in the Sociology of Work
SP - 165
EP - 172
BT - Research in the Sociology of Work
PB - Emerald Publishing
ER -