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Observarea participativă a grupurilor sociale dintr-o vecinătate bucureşteană
Participatory Observation of Social Groups in a Bucharest Neighborhood

Author(s): Marin Constantin
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Eikon

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an approach of three institutions in a Bucharest neighborhood, namely a marketplace, a factory, and a school, as seen from the perspective of anthropological method of participant observation. The author argues that participant observation may contribute in terms of ethics, ethnographic relevance, and feasibility, to identifying, analyzing, and interpreting the social groups and relationships specific to urban neighborhoods. In particular the ethnographic roles adapted to the life of local community are ascertained as tools in understanding the social and economic interdependence between such .actors. as the traders, workers, and students. The multiple identity that ethnographer undertakes in the field is eventually related to the very cultural diversity of the urban groups or networks that make the object of social research. Lucrarea este o abordare a trei institutii dintr-o vecinãtate bucuresteanã, si anume o piatã, o fabricã si o scoalã, privite din perspectiva metodei antropologice a observãrii participative. Autorul argumenteazã cã observarea participativã poate contribui, în termeni de eticã, relevantã etnograficã si fezabilitate, la identificarea, analizarea si interpretarea grupurilor si relatiilor sociale specifice învecinãrilor orãsenesti. Sunt validate în special rolurile etnografice adaptate vietii comunit ãtii locale ca instrumente de întelegere a interdependentei sociale si economice dintre .actori. precum negustorii, muncitorii si elevii. Identitatea multiplã pe care etnograful si-o asumã în teren este corelatã în cele din urmã cu însãsi diversitatea culturalã a grupurilor sau retelelor urbane ce fac obiectul cercetãrii sociale.

  • Issue Year: 5/2007
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 103-119
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian