Etnografik Araştırmalara İlişkisel Sosyolojinin Katkıları

Akçaoğlu A.

Sosyoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi, cilt.25, sa.3, ss.415-431, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Dergi Adı: Sosyoloji Araştırmaları Dergisi
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.415-431
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

This article focuses on the main features and possibilities of the relational ethnography inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological theory. First of all, a detailed definition of this ethnography is developed by shedding light on its four main components of ethnographer, culture, participant observation, and challenging research acts. Second, it examines the historical trajectory of the relationship between sociology and ethnography by specifying the roots of relational ethnography. Third, it explicates the three main contributions of relational ethnography, which are the shifts of ethnographic focus from groups to social positions, from physical space to fields, and from cultural order to cultural struggle. Additionally, commitments to scientificity, objectivity, reflexivity, and epistemological vigilance are discussed as unique features of relational ethnography. Finally, the possibilities and limitations of observant participation as developed by Loïc Wacquant as a form of relational ethnography are discussed.

Keywords: Ethnography, theory, relationality, Bourdieu, Wacquant.