Intensification of Imagination: On the Researcher’s Identity and the Suspension of Unconditional Objectivity Intensification of Imagination: On the Researcher’s Identity and the Suspension of Unconditional Objectivity
Journal Title: PRZEGLĄD SOCJOLOGII JAKOŚCIOWEJ - Year 2015, Vol 11, Issue 1
Abstract
Such academic values as impartiality of thinking, logical rules, tolerance in scientific matters define the spirit of science. Following the ethnographer’s path and looking at my own research, I point out that a person’s identity is an important part of this spirit. The consequence of treating the identity of a person equally with the objective knowledge is the suspension of unconditional objectivity. In addition, the ethnographer’s path is a tool for reducing the imperfection associated with the field of study, as well as for building conditional objectivity. Secondly, the ethnographer’s path facilitates illustrating particular problems I had to face during my research (e.g., analyses of hundreds of photographs archived in the database of the research project Invisible City; interpretation of subjective experiences of spectators of the Malta Festival Poznan, as well as their participation in culture, and interpretation of experiences of the researcher – both as a native and as a stranger).
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Waldemar Rapior
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