Title
Attraction In The Field: What We Need To Acknowledge And Implications For Research And Teaching
Keywords
attraction; ethnography; fieldwork; reflexivity
Abstract
Physical or sexual attraction plays an important role in shaping a wide range of relationships and in myriad ways. Our primary interest here is in how attraction shapes the qualitative research experience. Close examination of popular sociological ethnographies found that attractiveness is used as a descriptor, and almost always in a distancing fashion, but never considered in a reflexive manner. We explore implications of this silence surrounding attraction and urge greater candidness among sociologists conducting field research and teachers of qualitative methods. © The Author(s) 2012.
Publication Date
3-1-2013
Publication Title
Qualitative Inquiry
Volume
19
Issue
3
Number of Pages
167-178
Document Type
Article
Personal Identifier
scopus
DOI Link
https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800412466222
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84873636181 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84873636181
STARS Citation
Grauerholz, Liz; Barringer, Mandi; Colyer, Timothy; Guittar, Nicholas; and Hecht, Jaime, "Attraction In The Field: What We Need To Acknowledge And Implications For Research And Teaching" (2013). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 6741.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/6741