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Field labor and ethnographic reality

Gary Alan Fine
- 01 Jan 1999 - 
- Vol. 28, Iss: 5, pp 532-539
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This article is published in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.The article was published on 1999-01-01. It has received 49 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Field (Bourdieu).

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Chaos and the Abuse of Power: Workplace Bullying in Organizational and Interactional Context

TL;DR: This article explored the roles of relational power and organizational chaos in the emergence of workplace bullying and suggested a need for organizations not only to protect the weak, but also to eliminate chaos that creates openings for the abuse of power.
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On auto-ethnography

TL;DR: In this paper, a transgressive account in the context of professional practice opens out a professional's life, remaking power relations in the process, which is an emerging growth area for auto-ethnographers, given the ethical implications for everyone represented in the transgressive telling.
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Sexual Harassment in Organizational Context

TL;DR: This article used ordered and multinomial logistic regression to test whether organizational explanations vary in their capacity to predict three distinct forms of sexual harassment: patronizing, taunting, and predatory conduct.
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Supervisory Bullying, Status Inequalities and Organizational Context

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus theoretical attention on the importance of status-based power differentials and organizational context for the emergence of supervisory bullying in employment and highlight the importance not only of structural and social vulnerability such as being in a racial minority or of a low occupational position, but also of chaotic and disorganized workplaces.
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Field Research Practice in Management and Organization Studies: Reclaiming its Tradition of Discovery

TL;DR: In this paper, a review reasserts field research's discovery epistemology, emphasizing that discovery-oriented research practice occupies a minority position in the study of organization and management.
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The new language of qualitative method

TL;DR: Gubrium and Holstein this article propose a new theoretical view which reintegrates the traditional emphasis on the "how" and "what" of social life with a contemporary understanding of the "why".
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TEN LIES OF ETHNOGRAPHY: Moral Dilemmas of Field Research

TL;DR: The authors describes the underside of ethnographic work: compromises that one frequently makes with idealized ethical standards, and argues that images of ethnographers are based on partial truths or self-deceptions.
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Ideology in action: a pragmatic approach to a contested concept

TL;DR: In this paper, a micro-sociological grounding of ideology is proposed, focusing on how ideologies can be linked to lived experience and to social interaction. But they do not address how to understand the dynamics of ideology about the environment, drawing from an ethnographic investigation of amateur mushroom collectors.
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Agency, Structure, and Com parat ive Con texts : Toward a Synthetic lnteractionism

TL;DR: In this paper, the core concepts of obdurateness, constraint, negotiation, sedimentation, symbolization, identification, and ritualization are generalized into a synthetic interactionism based on the grounding of action in the comparison of contexts.