Search results for "Fieldwork"

Ethically Researching Local Impacts of Environmental Change without Travel

2021

Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2020, included local and international travel restrictions alongside limits on face-to-face gatherings. These measures impinged on participatory research examining local impacts of environmental change. In response, many researchers adopted techniques that could be implemented without travel. This article explores some of the consequent research ethics issues.

Field rules and bias in random surveys with quota samples : an assessment of CIS surveys

2018

Surveys applying quota sampling in their final step are widely used in opinion and market research all over the world. This is also the case in Spain, where the surveys carried out by CIS (a public institution for sociological research supported by the government) have become a point of reference. The rules used by CIS to select individuals within quotas, however, could be improved as they lead to biases in age distributions. Analysing more than 545,000 responses collected in the 220 monthly barometers conducted between 1997 and 2016 by CIS, we compare the empirical distributions of the barometers with the expected distributions from the sample design and/or target populations. Among other …

Performing ethnography and ethnicity : an early documentation of Finnish immigrants in Nordiska museet

2010

This article discusses the first project of the Nordic Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, dealing with immigrants. It was carried out between 1972 and 1990, and it produced material based on interviews, participant observation, photographs and other written and visual sources. The article first examines why and how this extensive research project was carried out and then discusses the documentation project as performance. The project was an early attempt to document the contemporary lives of people through fieldwork, although the original aim of this pioneering project was merely to create and preserve ethnic identity by documenting “authentic” Finnish characteristics. Thus, it is a good example …

Propositions pour une littérature d'investigation

2017

International audience; Le temps semble à l’alliance de la littérature et des sciences sociales. Mais les modalités en sont encore incertaines. Au lieu de considérer l’anthropologie comme une forme de littérature, on peut envisager la littérature comme une enquête. Cette « littérature d’investigation » se donne notamment pour objectif de documenter des formes de vie et de monter des dispositifs rendant compte d’aspects inaperçus de phénomènes sociaux. Elle occupe ainsi une position intermédiaire : elle se ménage à la fois une liberté et une créativité relatives vis-à-vis des protocoles d’enquête propres aux sciences sociales et une certaine méfiance pour un sens trop révérencieux envers la …

Everyday uses of standardized test information in a geriatric setting: a qualitative study exploring occupational therapist and physiotherapist test …

2013

Background Health professionals are required to collect data from standardized tests when assessing older patients’ functional ability. Such data provide quantifiable documentation on health outcomes. Little is known, however, about how physiotherapists and occupational therapists who administer standardized tests use test information in their daily clinical work. This article aims to investigate how test administrators in a geriatric setting justify the everyday use of standardized test information. Methods Qualitative study of physiotherapists and occupational therapists on two geriatric hospital wards in Norway that routinely tested their patients with standardized tests. Data draw on se…

Human Biomonitoring of food contaminants in Spanish children: Design, sampling and lessons learned

2017

Abstract Human Biomonitoring (HBM) studies are highly useful for evaluating population exposure to environmental contaminants and are being carried out in increasing numbers all over the world. The use of HBM in the field of food safety, in a risk assessment context, presents a growing interest as more health-based guidance values (HBGV) in biological matrices are derived, and can be used in a complementary way to the external exposure approaches such as total diet studies or surveillance programmes. The aims of the present work are: i) to describe the methodological framework of the BIOVAL study, a cross-sectional HBM program carried out by the Health Department of the Regional Government …

Everyday uses of standardized test information in a geriatric setting : a qualitative study exploring occupational therapist and physiotherapist test…

2014

Published version of an article in the journal: BMC Health Services Research. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-72 Open Access Background: Health professionals are required to collect data from standardized tests when assessing older patients' functional ability. Such data provide quantifiable documentation on health outcomes. Little is known, however, about how physiotherapists and occupational therapists who administer standardized tests use test information in their daily clinical work. This article aims to investigate how test administrators in a geriatric setting justify the everyday use of standardized test information. Methods. Qualitative s…

Una incursione fotografica ‘sul campo’ e l’antropologia ‘fuori campo’

2014

Before and after Science. Radcliffe-Brown e la questione dei rapporti tra metodi di ricerca sul campo, etnografia e teoria

2020

Nella prima parte del capitolo, mi occupo del periodo iniziale della carriera di Radcliffe-Brown che precede la pubblicazione, nel 1922, del suo celebre scritto, di carattere programmatico, su I metodi dell’etnologia e dell’antropologia sociale. Questo periodo di formazione è segnato dal rapporto con Haddon e Rivers, dalle due esperienze di ricerca sul campo nelle isole Andamane e tra gli aborigeni australiani, e dalla riflessione critica sul modello di scienza sociale proposto da Durkheim, riguardante in particolare le teorie formulate da quest’ultimo a proposito dei tipi di morfologia sociale e del ruolo di integrazione sociale svolto dalle credenze e dai rituali religiosi nelle “società …

Ricerche a Solunto (2022)

2023

New Investigations at Solunto (2022) ∙ The last fieldwork campaign in Solunto by the University of Palermo, in the sanctuary above the theatre and in the baths near the agora (the North Baths), obtained some relevant results concerning both the building sequences and the architectural configurations. In the sanctuary, a clearer picture is emerging of the oldest layout, dating from the 4th century B.C. (1st phase). After the first reshaping of the street grid and of the urban layout (2nd phase), in the second half of 2nd century B.C., an overall restyling (3rd phase) gave the whole sanctuary area an impressive organization into terraces linked through ramps and stairways. A striking feature,…