L’observation ethnographique en sociologie des rapports sociaux : sexe, race, classe et biais essentialistes 

This paper examines the essentialist biases which structure my practice of participant-observation in the mobilizations of unemployed people and undocumented migrants. On the one hand, it reveals the distortion between a “methodological constructivism” required to analyze the dynamics of class relat...

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Main Author: Xavier Dunezat
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2015-05-01
Series:Sociologies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/5075
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spelling doaj-dd52731ccffb46f09a9d076c2d1015c72021-02-09T15:21:03ZfraAssociation Internationale des Sociologues de Langue FrançaiseSociologies1992-26552015-05-01L’observation ethnographique en sociologie des rapports sociaux : sexe, race, classe et biais essentialistes Xavier DunezatThis paper examines the essentialist biases which structure my practice of participant-observation in the mobilizations of unemployed people and undocumented migrants. On the one hand, it reveals the distortion between a “methodological constructivism” required to analyze the dynamics of class relations and forms of “methodological essentialism” allowable so as to apprehend the dynamics of gender and race relations. On the other hand, it calls for a constructivist leap in the methodology of ethnographic observation when it takes as a theoretical framework the sociology of social relations and their inter-connections.http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/5075participant-observationessentialismgenderraceclass
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L’observation ethnographique en sociologie des rapports sociaux : sexe, race, classe et biais essentialistes 
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essentialism
gender
race
class
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title L’observation ethnographique en sociologie des rapports sociaux : sexe, race, classe et biais essentialistes 
title_short L’observation ethnographique en sociologie des rapports sociaux : sexe, race, classe et biais essentialistes 
title_full L’observation ethnographique en sociologie des rapports sociaux : sexe, race, classe et biais essentialistes 
title_fullStr L’observation ethnographique en sociologie des rapports sociaux : sexe, race, classe et biais essentialistes 
title_full_unstemmed L’observation ethnographique en sociologie des rapports sociaux : sexe, race, classe et biais essentialistes 
title_sort l’observation ethnographique en sociologie des rapports sociaux : sexe, race, classe et biais essentialistes 
publisher Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française
series Sociologies
issn 1992-2655
publishDate 2015-05-01
description This paper examines the essentialist biases which structure my practice of participant-observation in the mobilizations of unemployed people and undocumented migrants. On the one hand, it reveals the distortion between a “methodological constructivism” required to analyze the dynamics of class relations and forms of “methodological essentialism” allowable so as to apprehend the dynamics of gender and race relations. On the other hand, it calls for a constructivist leap in the methodology of ethnographic observation when it takes as a theoretical framework the sociology of social relations and their inter-connections.
topic participant-observation
essentialism
gender
race
class
url http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/5075
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