Field-Workers' Feelings: What We Feel, Who We are, How We Analyze

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Maintaining relations in the field is more than learning how to get along with respondents. To stay in the field, we sometimes have to manage negative feelings toward participants that make it difficult for us to sustain close connections with them. Medical students learn to deal with patients and procedures that disgust them (Smith & Kleinman, 1989). Similarly, field researchers may experience anger, disappointment, or ambivalence toward those they study. Field researchers, more than most sociologists, have been taught that science is not value free; researchers' expectations and feelings not only affect the research, but also become part of the process itself. Field-workers do not ...

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