The everyday world of bouncers: a rehabilitated role for covert ethnography
| Autor: | David Calvey |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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030504 nursing media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Media studies 050401 social sciences methods Deception 03 medical and health sciences 0504 sociology History and Philosophy of Science Covert Ethnography Sociology 0305 other medical science Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common |
| Popis: | © 2018, The Author(s) 2018. The focus of this article is on the everyday world of bouncers in the night-time economy of Manchester, England. The structure of the article is to contextualise my covert passing in this demonized subculture followed by explorations of the everyday world of bouncers through the related concepts of door order and the bouncer self. A part of the article is an examination of the management of situated ‘ethical moments’ during the fieldwork and, more generally, critical reflections on emotionality, embodiment and risk-taking in ethnography. I also reflect on the retrospective and longitudinal nature of my fieldwork immersion, and both the data management challenges and possibilities this brings. Covert ethnography can be a creative part of the ethnographer’s tool kit and can provide an alternative perspective on subcultures, settings and organisations. By overly frowning upon the apparent ethical transgressions of covert research, we can stifle and censor the sociological imagination rather than enhance it. My call is for a rehabilitation of covert research. |
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