Epistemological Vigilance as Ethnographic Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4245039 |
|---|---|
| Authors | K Jensen (0000-0001-7660-1185) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 353-358 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-0436 • E-ISSN: 1573-7837 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11133-025-09600-5 |
| OpenAlex | W4409648571 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
With "In Praise of 'Thick Construction,'" Loïc Wacquant offers a welcome manifesto for ethnography infused with Bourdieusian epistemology. Continuing in that spirit, I elaborate the need (and offer practical tips) for epistemological vigilance-that is, to reflexively interrogate one's own thinking-in the face of prenotions that threaten the thick construction of ethnographic objects. To illustrate the allure of prenotions and analytical struggles against them, I offer brief notes on some practical avenues to foster epistemological reflexivity: recognition, purposive reading, curious skepticism, patience, and intellectual record-keeping
Cognitive psychology · Cross-cultural psychology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Vigilance (psychology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology
Model Cases
The Stickup Kids
Patients of the State
Teaching and Learning the Craft
The Craft of Sociology
Intellectual inheritances
A Man among Other Men
"In Praise of "Thick Construction
Displaced in Place
State Categories, Bureaucracies of Displacement, and Possibilities from the Margins
Contexts of Reception Seen and Constituted from Below
Inequality without Groups
How do you know? Seven theses on qualitative sociology as theory and method
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |