Giampietro Gobo
Biographic Data
| ID | 308948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giampietro Gobo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giampietro |
| FAMILY NAME | Gobo |
| SIGNATURE | GOBO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3519-5640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sensing Frames: A Contribution to Sensory Pluralism
Are expressions like “sense of responsibility,” “sense of community,” and “business acumen” merely metaphors, or do they refer to deeper, socially embedded forms of perception? This article introduces the concept of “sensing frames”: the socially learned, culturally shaped, and pragmatically enacted modalities through which people perceive and feel frames —the organizational principles that, according to Goffman, allow us to define the situation …
"Hearing with the eyes" visual hearing in (a trio) music rehearsals
Making music together relies, among other things, on the mutual hearing amongst co-performers and on the visual monitoring of each other's actions and gestures. This is better facilitated when musicians share a mutual visual space where hearing and seeing play a primary role. However, drawing from workplace studies, linguistic anthropology, anthropology of the senses and multimodal interactional studies of sensoriality, we observed how mutual vis…
Trust and distrust in science: Embedding the interplay among scientists, mass media and public in Italy during the Sars-Cov-2 outbreak
COVID-19 pandemic has once again raised the long-standing problem of trust in science and scientists. However, many approaches tend, on one hand, to analyze science as if it were an entirely autonomous entity - and thus to attribute the causes of the decline in trust to factors external to it; on the other hand, these approaches address the question of trust in a dichotomous manner, in terms of presence or absence of it. Rather than assuming a ca…
Questioning and Disputing Vaccination Policies. Scientists and Experts in the Italian Public Debate
Most literature about vaccine hesitancy has been focused on parental attitudes. Less attention has been devoted to both scientists and experts (general practitioners, pediatricians, health care professionals and science journalists) who raise criticism about immunization policies and intervene in the public debate. This consideration aims to balance the current emphasis in the literature on parents’ attitudes about vaccination, offering a complem…
Ethnographic Approaches
Sensing the Bike: Creating a Collaborative Understanding of a Multi-Sensorial Experience in MotoGP Racing
This article concerns the analysis of work interaction of a motorcycle racing team during pre-season tests, drawing on ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis to explicate the ways in which the manager and the driver collaborate, through everyday gestures and language, to create a shared understanding of the bike's mechanical issues and disambiguate the driver's accounts of the bike's performance. We report on a set of video-recorded encounte…
Mario Cardano, Defending Qualitative Research. Design, Analysis, and Textualization: London, Routledge, 2019
Un titolo fuorviante... La ricerca qualitativa è stata spesso criticata (spesso a torto, ma a volte anche giustamente) di non essere rigorosa e trasparente. Il bel libro di Cardano tenta di colmare questa lacuna, fornendo degli utili strumenti logici e retorici per dare fondamenti più solidi alla ricerca qualitativa. A esser sinceri, appena letto il titolo, ho fatto un sobbalzo: è forse oggi in pericolo la ricerca qualitativa, per doverla “difend…
Ethnographic Interview
This is a 12-month project, for the purpose of documenting Arta, an underdescribed language in the Philippines. Arta is a severely endangered Austronesian language, spoken by 11 Negrito people living in Nagtipinan, Quirino Province
Key Ethnographic Approaches
Doing Ethnography
Why “merged” methods realize a higher integration than “mixed” methods: A reply
Purpose After the initial life (which coincides with the origins of social research in the 1850s, and lasts until 1940s), mixed methods revive at the beginning of 1970s. However, this second life (or renaissance) receives the deleterious imprinting of quantitative methods. In fact, some of the old positivist assumptions are still reproduced and active in most of mixed methods research. This imprinting is traceable in the ambiguity (and purposive …
Glocalization: A critical introduction
As Victor Roudometof immediately points out, glocalisation is an under-theorised concept: strictly speaking, there is no theory or school of theories on glocalisation, as such, in the literature. T
The next challenge: From mixed to merged methods
Purpose – In social sciences, after having witnessed several “turns” (cognitive, linguistic, pragmatic, interactional), the authors observe the rise of the “qualitative turn”. Therefore quantitative research methods are not mainstream anymore. One effect of this rebalance between quality and quantity is the recent “resurgence” of mixed methods. However, a new challenge presses social research: creating new methods, which could combine both qualit…
Re-Conceptualizing Generalization: Old Issues in a New Frame
Managing the decline of globalized methodology
In his preface to the World Social Science Report (ISSC, 2010) Gudmund Hernes, the President of the International Social Science Council argues that the contemporary confluence of crises generates
Glocalizing methodology? The encounter between local methodologies
Europe and USA have been the cradle of methodology. Consequently most of the contemporary methodological knowledge has been invented by Western academic culture. Throughout the twentieth century this indigenous culture has been transformed into a type of general knowledge, and social science methodology has become one of the most globalized knowledge. However the limits of globalization are evident in many fields, from economy to politics, from m…
Ritorno a Likert. Verso una survey discorsiva
For decades, the dilemma between open-ended and closed-ended response alternatives occupied the methodological debate. Over the years, dominant approaches in survey have reacted to this dilemma by opting for fixed response alternatives and the standardization of interviewer's behaviour. If this methodological decision has been the survey's fortune, making it the methodology most widely used in the social sciences, however it produces a large amou…
Ethnographic Methodology: Approaches, Scholars and Modes
Doing Ethnography
Crafting Blindness: Its Organizational Construction in a First Grade School
This article is based on a case study conducted in an Italian primary school where the interactions between a sightless girl (named Jasmine, aged 8) and her classmates were extensively observed. The initial aim was to understand and describe the problems encountered by the sightless pupil, who acted in a social, organizational and physical environment which was not designed for handicapped people. However, other theoretical issues emerged during …
Useful resources: Ethnography through the internet
Set Them Free: Improving Data Quality by Broadening the Interviewer’s Tasks
The paper deals with a highly controversial issue in survey data collection: the standardization of the interviewer's behaviour during the interviewee's selection of response alternatives. In the light of a large set of data drawn from several methodological studies published in the last 50 years, the author documents a counter‐intuitive issue: (1) interviewer's errors are of secondary importance and far smaller than respondents' errors; and (2) …
Qualitative Research Practice
Introduction - Clive Seale et al Inside Qualitative Research PART ONE: ENCOUNTERING METHOD Interviews - Tim Rapley Oral History - Joanna Bornat Biographical Research - Gabriele Rosenthal Focus Groups - Phil Macnaghten and Greg Myers Grounded Theory - Ian Dey Performance and Rehearsal - Paul Atkinson The Ethnographer at the Opera PART TWO: ANALYTIC FRAMEWORKS Narrative Research - Molly Andrews et al Feminist Approaches - Celia Kitzinger The Foucau…
Bridging Qualitative & Quantitative Methods
"Class" as Metaphor On the Unreflexive Transformation of a Concept Into an Object
Some authors (Schumpeter, Sorokin) consider classes as communities or groupings of families. Others consider them as conditions, positions, or roles assumed in society. Such theoretical uncertainty is followed by a similarly uncertain empirical classification. This confusion probably exists because classes are not ostensible objects but concepts, that is, culturally and mutually constructed cognitive schemas. In order to see classes, scientists h…
Glocalizing methodology? The encounter between local methodologies
Europe and USA have been the cradle of methodology. Consequently most of the contemporary methodological knowledge has been invented by Western academic culture. Throughout the twentieth century this indigenous culture has been transformed into a type of general knowledge, and social science methodology has become one of the most globalized knowledge. However the limits of globalization are evident in many fields, from economy to politics, from m…
"Hearing with the eyes" visual hearing in (a trio) music rehearsals
Making music together relies, among other things, on the mutual hearing amongst co-performers and on the visual monitoring of each other's actions and gestures. This is better facilitated when musicians share a mutual visual space where hearing and seeing play a primary role. However, drawing from workplace studies, linguistic anthropology, anthropology of the senses and multimodal interactional studies of sensoriality, we observed how mutual vis…
Managing the decline of globalized methodology
In his preface to the World Social Science Report (ISSC, 2010) Gudmund Hernes, the President of the International Social Science Council argues that the contemporary confluence of crises generates
"Class" as Metaphor On the Unreflexive Transformation of a Concept Into an Object
Some authors (Schumpeter, Sorokin) consider classes as communities or groupings of families. Others consider them as conditions, positions, or roles assumed in society. Such theoretical uncertainty is followed by a similarly uncertain empirical classification. This confusion probably exists because classes are not ostensible objects but concepts, that is, culturally and mutually constructed cognitive schemas. In order to see classes, scientists h…
Class: Stories of concepts. From ordinary language to scientific language
Etude de l'histoire du concept de classe : avant d'etre une construction des sciences humaines et sociales et d'autres disciplines scientifiques, le concept de classe etait un produit de la vie quotidienne et du langage ordinaire. L'A. analyse le processus qui a introduit le concept de classe dans le discours scientifique
Trust and distrust in science: Embedding the interplay among scientists, mass media and public in Italy during the Sars-Cov-2 outbreak
COVID-19 pandemic has once again raised the long-standing problem of trust in science and scientists. However, many approaches tend, on one hand, to analyze science as if it were an entirely autonomous entity - and thus to attribute the causes of the decline in trust to factors external to it; on the other hand, these approaches address the question of trust in a dichotomous manner, in terms of presence or absence of it. Rather than assuming a ca…
Sensing the Bike: Creating a Collaborative Understanding of a Multi-Sensorial Experience in MotoGP Racing
This article concerns the analysis of work interaction of a motorcycle racing team during pre-season tests, drawing on ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis to explicate the ways in which the manager and the driver collaborate, through everyday gestures and language, to create a shared understanding of the bike's mechanical issues and disambiguate the driver's accounts of the bike's performance. We report on a set of video-recorded encounte…
Glocalization: A critical introduction
As Victor Roudometof immediately points out, glocalisation is an under-theorised concept: strictly speaking, there is no theory or school of theories on glocalisation, as such, in the literature. T
Class: Stories of concepts. From ordinary language to scientific language
Etude de l'histoire du concept de classe : avant d'etre une construction des sciences humaines et sociales et d'autres disciplines scientifiques, le concept de classe etait un produit de la vie quotidienne et du langage ordinaire. L'A. analyse le processus qui a introduit le concept de classe dans le discours scientifique
"Class" as Metaphor On the Unreflexive Transformation of a Concept Into an Object
Some authors (Schumpeter, Sorokin) consider classes as communities or groupings of families. Others consider them as conditions, positions, or roles assumed in society. Such theoretical uncertainty is followed by a similarly uncertain empirical classification. This confusion probably exists because classes are not ostensible objects but concepts, that is, culturally and mutually constructed cognitive schemas. In order to see classes, scientists h…
Bridging Qualitative & Quantitative Methods
Qualitative Research Practice
Introduction - Clive Seale et al Inside Qualitative Research PART ONE: ENCOUNTERING METHOD Interviews - Tim Rapley Oral History - Joanna Bornat Biographical Research - Gabriele Rosenthal Focus Groups - Phil Macnaghten and Greg Myers Grounded Theory - Ian Dey Performance and Rehearsal - Paul Atkinson The Ethnographer at the Opera PART TWO: ANALYTIC FRAMEWORKS Narrative Research - Molly Andrews et al Feminist Approaches - Celia Kitzinger The Foucau…
Set Them Free: Improving Data Quality by Broadening the Interviewer’s Tasks
The paper deals with a highly controversial issue in survey data collection: the standardization of the interviewer's behaviour during the interviewee's selection of response alternatives. In the light of a large set of data drawn from several methodological studies published in the last 50 years, the author documents a counter‐intuitive issue: (1) interviewer's errors are of secondary importance and far smaller than respondents' errors; and (2) …
Ethnographic Methodology: Approaches, Scholars and Modes
Doing Ethnography
Crafting Blindness: Its Organizational Construction in a First Grade School
This article is based on a case study conducted in an Italian primary school where the interactions between a sightless girl (named Jasmine, aged 8) and her classmates were extensively observed. The initial aim was to understand and describe the problems encountered by the sightless pupil, who acted in a social, organizational and physical environment which was not designed for handicapped people. However, other theoretical issues emerged during …
Useful resources: Ethnography through the internet
Ritorno a Likert. Verso una survey discorsiva
For decades, the dilemma between open-ended and closed-ended response alternatives occupied the methodological debate. Over the years, dominant approaches in survey have reacted to this dilemma by opting for fixed response alternatives and the standardization of interviewer's behaviour. If this methodological decision has been the survey's fortune, making it the methodology most widely used in the social sciences, however it produces a large amou…
Managing the decline of globalized methodology
In his preface to the World Social Science Report (ISSC, 2010) Gudmund Hernes, the President of the International Social Science Council argues that the contemporary confluence of crises generates
Glocalizing methodology? The encounter between local methodologies
Europe and USA have been the cradle of methodology. Consequently most of the contemporary methodological knowledge has been invented by Western academic culture. Throughout the twentieth century this indigenous culture has been transformed into a type of general knowledge, and social science methodology has become one of the most globalized knowledge. However the limits of globalization are evident in many fields, from economy to politics, from m…
Re-Conceptualizing Generalization: Old Issues in a New Frame
The next challenge: From mixed to merged methods
Purpose – In social sciences, after having witnessed several “turns” (cognitive, linguistic, pragmatic, interactional), the authors observe the rise of the “qualitative turn”. Therefore quantitative research methods are not mainstream anymore. One effect of this rebalance between quality and quantity is the recent “resurgence” of mixed methods. However, a new challenge presses social research: creating new methods, which could combine both qualit…
Why “merged” methods realize a higher integration than “mixed” methods: A reply
Purpose After the initial life (which coincides with the origins of social research in the 1850s, and lasts until 1940s), mixed methods revive at the beginning of 1970s. However, this second life (or renaissance) receives the deleterious imprinting of quantitative methods. In fact, some of the old positivist assumptions are still reproduced and active in most of mixed methods research. This imprinting is traceable in the ambiguity (and purposive …
Glocalization: A critical introduction
As Victor Roudometof immediately points out, glocalisation is an under-theorised concept: strictly speaking, there is no theory or school of theories on glocalisation, as such, in the literature. T
Ethnographic Interview
This is a 12-month project, for the purpose of documenting Arta, an underdescribed language in the Philippines. Arta is a severely endangered Austronesian language, spoken by 11 Negrito people living in Nagtipinan, Quirino Province
Key Ethnographic Approaches
Doing Ethnography
Mario Cardano, Defending Qualitative Research. Design, Analysis, and Textualization: London, Routledge, 2019
Un titolo fuorviante... La ricerca qualitativa è stata spesso criticata (spesso a torto, ma a volte anche giustamente) di non essere rigorosa e trasparente. Il bel libro di Cardano tenta di colmare questa lacuna, fornendo degli utili strumenti logici e retorici per dare fondamenti più solidi alla ricerca qualitativa. A esser sinceri, appena letto il titolo, ho fatto un sobbalzo: è forse oggi in pericolo la ricerca qualitativa, per doverla “difend…
Ethnographic Approaches
Sensing the Bike: Creating a Collaborative Understanding of a Multi-Sensorial Experience in MotoGP Racing
This article concerns the analysis of work interaction of a motorcycle racing team during pre-season tests, drawing on ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis to explicate the ways in which the manager and the driver collaborate, through everyday gestures and language, to create a shared understanding of the bike's mechanical issues and disambiguate the driver's accounts of the bike's performance. We report on a set of video-recorded encounte…
Questioning and Disputing Vaccination Policies. Scientists and Experts in the Italian Public Debate
Most literature about vaccine hesitancy has been focused on parental attitudes. Less attention has been devoted to both scientists and experts (general practitioners, pediatricians, health care professionals and science journalists) who raise criticism about immunization policies and intervene in the public debate. This consideration aims to balance the current emphasis in the literature on parents’ attitudes about vaccination, offering a complem…
"Hearing with the eyes" visual hearing in (a trio) music rehearsals
Making music together relies, among other things, on the mutual hearing amongst co-performers and on the visual monitoring of each other's actions and gestures. This is better facilitated when musicians share a mutual visual space where hearing and seeing play a primary role. However, drawing from workplace studies, linguistic anthropology, anthropology of the senses and multimodal interactional studies of sensoriality, we observed how mutual vis…
Trust and distrust in science: Embedding the interplay among scientists, mass media and public in Italy during the Sars-Cov-2 outbreak
COVID-19 pandemic has once again raised the long-standing problem of trust in science and scientists. However, many approaches tend, on one hand, to analyze science as if it were an entirely autonomous entity - and thus to attribute the causes of the decline in trust to factors external to it; on the other hand, these approaches address the question of trust in a dichotomous manner, in terms of presence or absence of it. Rather than assuming a ca…
Sociology (20 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (4 works)