Field Research for Boneheads: From Naïveté to Insight on the Green Tortoise

Timothy McGettigan

Sociological Research Online, 2001, vol. 6, issue 2, 91-103

Abstract: In the following story, I catalogue a variety of difficulties that I encountered while conducting field research on the Green Tortoise. Oddly enough, the greatest impediments to the early success of this project were my poorly examined orienting assumptions. Nevertheless, the distortions imposed by my flawed assumptions were effectively sundered by an uncomfortable, but invaluable “corrective†crisis.

Keywords: Validity; Field Research; Good Science; Green Tortoise; Power; Truth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.589

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