{"title":"Recorded Participant Ethnography in Family Homes: Children, Social Class, and the Role of the Researcher","authors":"Holly Hargis","doi":"10.1177/0759106320908221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106320908221","url":null,"abstract":"Although ethnography has been a methodology used for years by anthropologists and sociologists, few researchers have entered the homes of children for extended periods of time in order to observe childhood and childrearing practices. The methodology discussed in this article notably permits the researcher to observe child socialization among family members first-hand. Based on seven-months of ethnographic observations among four families from differing social backgrounds in the Ile-de-France region of France, the article discusses how this recorded participant ethnography was set up. The article shows that the researcher held different roles in the families and that these roles varied according to social milieu. Through first analyzing the conditions of these observations among the families, the article provides empirical evidence of the social differentiation of children's daily lives.","PeriodicalId":210053,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116556723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explorer le monde des enfants. Défis théoriques et méthodologiques de l’analyse des représentations enfantines du monde","authors":"A. Ott","doi":"10.1177/0759106320908222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106320908222","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article est consacré aux enjeux soulevés par une analyse des représentations du monde qu’ont des enfants âgés de 6 à 11 ans et scolarisés dans quatre écoles élémentaires parisiennes. L’accès aux représentations d’un objet complexe comme le monde, qui plus est auprès d’un jeune public, présente plusieurs difficultés théoriques, méthodologiques et éthiques. Cette contribution défend la mise en place sur le terrain d’un dispositif pluri-méthodologique, inclusif et processuel, qui seul permet de contourner les biais inhérents à certains outils et de saisir les évolutions et différenciations des représentations des enfants. Appréhender ces dernières, aussi bien comme produits que comme processus, nécessite également la prise en compte de différents facteurs et instances de socialisation pouvant influencer leur construction.","PeriodicalId":210053,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131203449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Rouyer, S. Constans, Corinne Ponce, Joanna Lucenet
{"title":"Etudier le point de vue des enfants : Questions épistémologiques, méthodologiques et éthiques en psychologie du développement","authors":"V. Rouyer, S. Constans, Corinne Ponce, Joanna Lucenet","doi":"10.1177/0759106320908232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106320908232","url":null,"abstract":"Dès le début du XXème siècle, les premiers chercheurs en psychologie du développement ont été confrontés à la question de la méthodologie d’enquête auprès des enfants. Le premier objectif de cet article est d’examiner les questions épistémologiques et méthodologiques liées aux recherches centrées sur le point de vue de l’enfant et les conditions permettant à l’enfant d’exprimer celui-ci et aux chercheur.e.s de l’interpréter. Le second objectif de cet article vise à considérer les questionnements éthiques et déontologiques soulevés par la réalisation d’une étude auprès d’enfants, comme le consentement de participation, le respect de l’anonymat, la confidentialité des données recueillies, ou encore la restitution des résultats. Enfin, ces éléments de réflexion sont discutés au regard de l’évolution du statut de l’enfant dans la société, et de la question de sa participation, tant sur le plan de la recherche que sur le plan des pratiques de terrain dans différents contextes.","PeriodicalId":210053,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134410952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studying Children using Ethnography: Heightened Challenges and Balancing Acts","authors":"P. Harvey, Annette Lareau","doi":"10.1177/0759106320908220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106320908220","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars have debated how to carry out research with children, particularly about how to generate the most accurate data in an ethically-sensitive fashion. But there has been limited discussion of the practicalities of such research. Relying on our own ethnographic studies with children and families, conducted two decades apart, we argue that studying children heightens routine research challenges and requires the constant balancing of pressures. Our studies highlight difficulties in two broad arenas: the simultaneous management of procedural obligations to children and their gatekeepers (‘the double act’), and the need to juggle satisfying adult norms of interaction while generating and maintaining rapport with children (‘walking the tightrope’). These heightened challenges cannot be solved through use of the “right” method. Rather, they should be acknowledged and met with flexibility, reflexivity, and perseverance. More broadly, open discussion of the difficulties faced while conducting research should not be seen as revealing failings, but as a vital way for scholars to advance the field.","PeriodicalId":210053,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114076619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Varia: On Thesis Methodology, Reviewers, and the GDPR","authors":"S. Duchesne, Viviane Le Hay","doi":"10.1177/0759106319888701a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106319888701a","url":null,"abstract":"This issue begins with two articles in ‘The methodology of my thesis’ section, one in English, the other in French. This section is particularly important to us because we are committed to publishing the work of all young researchers who propose an article, when both it and they are ready, and to reworking the text as much is necessary before publication. Yet when it comes to recounting the methodological adventure of a PhD, choices have to be made, and sometimes they are by no means simple. Ultimately the articles in this section are quite different from each other: some emphasize a specific methodological question or issue, while others explore the combination of techniques and fieldwork used during the doctoral research. In this issue, Pierre Blavier’s article falls into the second category. In it, he documents the way in which he combined the analysis of quantitative data on the effects of the economic crisis on Spanish households with an ethno-compatibility study. Julien Audemard’s article, on the other hand, is entirely dedicated to analyzing the way in which he implemented a survey technique rarely used in electoral analysis, a questionnaire administered by snowball sampling. Exchanges with the authors who accept this mode of operation and agree to rework their articles as a result are all the more fruitful because they draw on detailed and constructive comments proposed by the reviewers, who cannot be thanked enough. This first editorial of 2020 is the opportunity to personally thank all those colleagues who have given their time and their expertise to the BMS and its authors: Rolf Becker, Camille Bedock, Bruno Cautrès, François Dubet, Julien Duval, André-Paul Frognier, Andrew Gelman, Céline Gofette, Michael Grenfell, Catherine Guaspare, François Guillemette, Gary King, Anne Le Huerou, Iasonas Lamprianou, Christophe Lejeune, Moreno Mancosu, John Levi Martin, Nonna Mayer, Julian Mischi, Marianne Modak, Etienne Ollion, Adrien Papuchon, Tristan Poullaouec, Farah Ramzy, Mathew Stange, Isabelle Sommier, Romain Tiquet, Virginie Van Ingelgom, along with the members of the editorial committee. This issue also contains an article by Christophe Brochier who discusses a method often used to measure discrimination: Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, and a collective article by Oliver Brust, Michael Hader and Sabine Hader, who document their work exploring one of the possible causes of nonresponse in survey studies: procrastination. Finally, this issue concludes with a short text in which Marie Plessz describes how she implemented the GDPR (General Data Protection Rules) as part of a masters course on quantitative sociology. She explains the choices she made developing a protocol, validated by the data protection delegate at her research institute, which allowed them to conduct their surveys in perfect accordance with the law. This text is particularly important to us because it has become essential that everyone take up the questions that the","PeriodicalId":210053,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128267663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La grande récession de 2008 au prisme des budgets de ménage espagnols","authors":"P. Blavier","doi":"10.1177/0759106319888702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106319888702","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article revient sur les méthodes employées pour investiguer les manifestations socio-économiques du chômage de masse, à travers le cas de la Grande Récession de 2008 en Espagne. Il s’agissait de se demander quelles répercussions un tel choc macroéconomique, et le chômage de masse qu’il a engendré, ont eu sur les économies familiales des chômeurs espagnols. Pour cela, nous avons articulé d’un côté des analyses statistiques « standards », et de l’autre une enquête qualitative par ethnocomptabilité visant à constituer des budgets de ménage de première main. Nous revenons ici sur cette démarche de recherche en montrant ses apports et ses éventuelles difficultés.","PeriodicalId":210053,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124370181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Un protocole pour une enquête par questionnaire anonyme au sens du Règlement européen","authors":"Marie Plessz","doi":"10.1177/0759106319888706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106319888706","url":null,"abstract":"L’entrée en vigueur du Règlement général sur la protection des données personnelles (RGPD) dans l’Union européenne en 2018 a conduit de nombreux sociologues à s’interroger sur la concordance entre leurs pratiques d’enquêtes et le cadre législatif. Enseigner comment faire une enquête par questionnaire implique de former les étudiants à ces aspects déontologiques et juridiques des pratiques d’enquête. Aussi je me suis faite accompagner par une juriste déléguée à la protection des données pour vérifier que l’enquête par questionnaire (10 minutes) que je faisais réaliser chaque année par mes étudiants de master était conforme à la législation. Ce travail a débouché sur le protocole pour une enquête anonyme (par téléphone et auto-administré sur internet) qui est reproduit ici. Il est précédé d’une mise en contexte sur la législation sur les données personnelles ; sur la façon dont se déroule l’enquête pour laquelle j’ai conçu ce protocole ; enfin sur le choix d’anonymiser complètement l’enquête.","PeriodicalId":210053,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124107548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Objectifying Contextual Effects. The Use of Snowball Sampling in Political Sociology","authors":"Julien Audemard","doi":"10.1177/0759106319888703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106319888703","url":null,"abstract":"The statistical objectification of the contextual dimension of human behaviors, namely the part played by the interactions that individuals have with the people that they encounter in the places they frequent, often seems to be methodological gauntletly challenging. Among the different strategies that propose to achieve this objective, snowball sampling allows for isolating personal networks directly. This article interrogates the conditions of implementation of snowball sampling, as well as how the statistical materials that it produces are used in contextual analysis. I demonstrate why and how multilevel modeling is particularly relevant for solving the issue of the internal validity of snowball samples while taking advantage of the hierarchical structure of data to isolate the influence of contextual variables on behaviors. Referring to my doctoral research and using the specific example of the identification of individual and contextual factors of political discussions, I also show how data obtained through snowball sampling can be mobilized and modelized.","PeriodicalId":210053,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131541938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mesurer la discrimination salariale ? Une critique radicale de la décomposition de Oaxaca-Blinder","authors":"Christophe Brochier","doi":"10.1177/0759106319888704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0759106319888704","url":null,"abstract":"Ce texte propose une critique radicale de la décomposition de Oaxaca-Blinder appliquée aux inégalités salariales. Cette méthode décompose un écart salarial entre deux groupes entre une part « expliquée » par les différences de compétences et une part « inexpliquée » appelée effets de la discrimination. On montre ici, en les passant en revue, que des critiques techniques nombreuses minent la prétention de la méthode à pouvoir chiffrer la discrimination. Le problème principal est cependant l’utilisation d’hypothèses contrefactuelles irréalistes. Le texte conclut donc qu’il faut renoncer à chiffrer la discrimination salariale par cette méthode et qu’il est sans doute préférable d’étudier la discrimination par d’autres voies.","PeriodicalId":210053,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128254860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}