📝 In our new #publication in the journal #Qualitative #Research we give an exclusive look #behindthescenes of our methods of #notetaking and #participantobservation 👀during global 🌐 environmental #negotiations - read now #OpenAccess here 👇

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There is no neutral observer.
Only disguised participants.

#NeutralObserver #DisguisedParticipant #ObjectiveView #SubjectiveExperience #PerspectiveMatters #PerceptionVsReality #IndividualBias #ObserverEffect #ParticipantObservation #ObjectiveReality #LimitedPerspective #PersonalInfluence

This WHOLE thread is a lesson in how #comparativereligion #participantobservation should be. Props to this! I did something like this three times in my undergrad, and I never understood why students were apprehensive. Potentially, it was because many of us were raised in orthodox Mormon households.

2/ #Malinowski, considered the father of #Functionalism, argued that cultural practices exist to meet individual and collective needs, ensuring societal stability and cohesion. His emphasis on immersive #fieldwork and #participantobservation revolutionized anthropological methodology.