Shifting roles, changing relations: considerations when doing ethnographic research with multiple families

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16483811214859

Hamide Elif Üzümcü

引用次数: 1

Abstract

When conducting ethnographic research, a family researcher becomes involved in the personal lives of the participants. This raises a number of concerns for the researcher when establishing relationships with family members. Drawing on qualitative data from research on children’s intra-familial privacy in Turkey, this article aims to increase awareness of several cultural aspects that may have an impact on how researchers build rapport with family members in Turkey. It reflects on a set of key considerations when doing ethnographic research with multiple families. These include the cultural struggles for children when addressing the researcher (in kinship terms such as ‘elder sister’), negotiation of the researcher’s role through participant observational activities, the changing display of family over time, the researcher’s over-involvement in family issues, and adapting to family cultures when working with families from different sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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角色的转变，关系的改变:对多个家庭进行民族志研究时的考虑

在进行民族志研究时，家庭研究员会介入参与者的个人生活。这为研究人员在与家庭成员建立关系时提出了一些问题。本文利用土耳其儿童家庭内部隐私研究的定性数据，旨在提高人们对几个文化方面的认识，这些方面可能会影响研究人员如何与土耳其家庭成员建立融洽关系。它反映了在对多个家庭进行民族志研究时的一系列关键考虑因素。这些问题包括儿童在与研究人员交谈时的文化斗争(在亲属关系术语中，如“姐姐”)，通过参与者观察活动对研究人员角色的协商，随着时间的推移家庭表现的变化，研究人员过度参与家庭问题，以及在与来自不同社会文化和社会经济背景的家庭合作时适应家庭文化。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.