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

Socpus ID

84873636181 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84873636181

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