Participant Observation and Interviewing
A Comparison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2497601 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard S Becker (Community Studies, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri), Blanche Geer (Community Studies, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri) |
| Year | 1957 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 28-32 |
| Publication date | 1957-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.16.3.k687822132323013 |
| OpenAlex | W2055282482 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 190 |
The most complete form of the sociological datum, after all, is the form in which the participant observer gathers it: An observation of some social event, the events which precede and follow it, and explanations of its meaning by participants and spectators, before, during, and after its occurrence. Such a datum gives us more information about the event under study than data gathered by any other sociological method. Participant observation can thus provide us with a yardstick against which to measure the completeness of data gathered in other ways, a model which can serve to let us know what orders of information escape us when we use other methods
Completeness (order theory · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Geodetic datum · Geography · Interview · Meaning (existential · Observer (physics · Participant observation · Social science · Sociology · Yardstick · Anthropology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Mathematics · Psychology · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Social Psychology
Rules of the road
Beyond a subjective theory of value and towards a ‘fair price’
The Social Uses of Advertising
Some problems of the methodology of sociological research
Ethnography
A Handbook of Qualitative Methodologies for Mass Communication Research
Interactionism, Symbolic
Qualitative research methods in health technology assessment
Collaborative Analysis of Qualitative Data
Designing a Qualitative Study
Key Informant
The Roles of Observers in Empirical Research in Social Sciences
Towards situated practices for disaster risk reduction (DRR)
Understanding EAL
Quand « l’avenir est derrière soi »
In welcher Soziologie arbeiten (und leben) wir? Eine Einladung
Workplace‐based assessments—Articulating the playbook
A New Understanding of the Role of Self-oriented Motivations in the Creation of Social Enterprises
From Data Journalism to Artificial Intelligence
Task Shifting and Sharing in Indian Mental Health
La percepción del cortometraje por los profesionales del cine español
Buying reassurance
The Problem of Informant Accuracy
Vernacular budgeting and accounting routines – a longitudinal constructive case study
Feldanalyse als Forschungsprogramm
Teilnehmende Beobachtung
Soziologie und qualitative Sozialforschung
Teaching and Learning the Craft
Herbert Blumer
Qualitative methods for health research
The denotative dimension of meaning for the mentally ill-healthy role
The Use and Misuse of Surveys in International Development
Complementary Methods of Data Gathering in Literate, Urban Populations
Local Broadcast Journalists and the Trap of Professional Heterogeneity
Special Issue
Labor Insertion of Italian Professionals in Valencia
Achieving synergies through generic skills
Emotion Regulation through Experiences of Psychic Mediumship
A critique of the use of triangulation in social research
The Integration of Fieldwork and Survey Methods
Observation
The Hospital Volunteer
Participant Observation in the Sociological Analysis of Sport
Design and Interdisciplinarity
Mixing Qualitative Methods
Papal Authority
Ethical Problems in Studying a Politically Sensitive and Deviant Community
“The most important technique …”
Entering the Native's Social World
Teaching and Learning about Controversial Issues
The Value of a Pre-Internship Observation Experience
Caring in community
Perception of Adoption as Social Stigma
On Qualitative Family Research
An Integrating View of the Underlying Premises of an Industrial Ethnology in the United States and Canada
Why “merged” methods realize a higher integration than “mixed” methods
Interview-based research in management and organisation studies
Religiosity and Spirituality Among Members of an African American Church Community
Emotional Forecasting of Happiness
Hot Potato Criminology
Opening the Black Box-Three Approaches to Interpretation in Participant Observation Studies
Mastering the jazz standard
What can cognitive neuroscience do for cultural sociology
Classroom culture and cultures in the classroom
A Community of Voices
Who Counts as a Sexual Subject? The Impact of Ableist Rhetoric for People with Intellectual Disability in Sweden
Rethinking rules for 911
Performative Progressiveness
Dual Language Teachers’ Use of Conventional, Environmental, and Personal Resources to Support Academic Language Development
Lay Acquiescence to Medical Dominance
Concrete U(dys)topia in Bethlehem
Beyond the hinterland
Foreign presents or foreign presence? Resident perceptions of Australian and Chinese tourists in Niseko, Japan
Biographical interviews and imagined futures essay writing
Biting the Hand that Heals You
Multi-Visual Qualitative Method
Reflecting on Novice Qualitative Interviewer Mistakes
Ethnography and narrative
Understanding scientists’ computational modeling decisions about climate risk management strategies using values-informed mental models
Educational research as a full participant
The construction of researcher–researched relationships in school ethnography
Alternative Lenses for Qualitative Religion Research
Deconstructing homegardens
Co-constructing sustainability
Media Consumption and the Contexts of Physical Culture
Exploitation in rent systems
Predatory rapists and victim selection techniques
Ex-ante Hypothesen in der Qualitativen Sozialforschung
Understanding the Process of Community Capacity-Building
Audience orientation and the occupational rhetoric of public house performers
Objectivity and truth
The Sociology of Medical Education
Tourists as commodities in below-cost tours
Reflections on Participant Observation and Humanistic Sociology
Employment Status and Commitment Among Public House Performers
Recent Radical Criticism of Interview Studies
Multiple Methods of Data Collection
Saying, Doing, Talking, Listening
Howard S. Becker
On “Socializing” Attitudes
| Unique citing works | 190 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,11 |
| Citation span | 1965 - 2026 (62) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 186 |