Leaving the Private World of Wives of Professional Athletes

A Male Sociologist’s Reflections

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2365151
AutoresSteven M Ortiz (Oregon State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen33
Número4
Páginas466-487
Fecha de publicación2004-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241604265980
OpenAlexW2003577847
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas52

The same skills, techniques, and strategies that make fieldwork go well can keep the fieldworker in the field far longer than necessary. Interest in this irony and the exit process was prompted by dilemmas encountered by a male ethnographer in terminating his long-term fieldwork with wives of professional athletes. This reflexive account examines collaborative relationships and compulsive data collection-which proved to be essential in gathering and analyzing data-for their consequences in the leaving process. It is proposed that having a greater awareness of such methodological issues may result in constructing more realistic and less stressful exit strategies, and coping more effectively with the disruptive, emotional, or problematic nature of the disengagement process

Art · Athletes · Coping (psychology · Data collection · Disengagement theory · Ethnography · Irony · Political science · Psychotherapist · Public relations · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Medicine · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology · Sports, Gender, and Society