Mes ratés de terrain
I propose in this paper to return to the failures that have occurred during my life as a researcher in order to learn some lessons. I argue that, in human sciences, a failure in fieldwork is always better than no fieldwork at all. The triviality of such an assertion seems less strong when we pay att...
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Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française
2017-05-01
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| author | Pierre Verdrager |
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| description | I propose in this paper to return to the failures that have occurred during my life as a researcher in order to learn some lessons. I argue that, in human sciences, a failure in fieldwork is always better than no fieldwork at all. The triviality of such an assertion seems less strong when we pay attention to the denunciations of the “myth of fieldwork” made by some complacent intellectuals claiming to belong to social sciences. |
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| title_short | Mes ratés de terrain |
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| topic | fieldwork empirical work epistemology of social science life story failure of investigation |
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