Viewpoint: Place and Space in Sociological Fieldwork
The Sociological ReviewPublished 1 August 1986
Gerry V. Stimson
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Abstract
This brief note argues against the tendency in sociological fieldwork to limit observation and explanation to one medium of communication – speech. Against such ethnographic reductionism, it pleads for a reincorporation of a sense of place and space in fieldwork, and for attention to the multiple ways in which messages are communicated.
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