Naslov
Methodology and theory of the organizational ethnography

Autori
Puljar D'Alessio, Sanja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
SeminaRRi

Mjesto i datum
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 07.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
responsibilities of the ethnographer, industrial organizations, ethics of the research

Sažetak
Recently I researched the shipyard "3. maj", here in Rijeka. The research was focused on the analysis of the shipyard's internal organizational dynamics, as well as its interrelations with external socio-political developments and developments in the shipbuilding industry. The goal of this approach was to question the ideas of clear-cut borders between “in” and “out” of the organization “3. maj”, or to demonstrate complex entanglements of organizations in the contemporary world. As it often happens in the line of our work, while the research produced some new insights into the anthropological approach to an understanding of organizations, it opened many others. One of the non-answered questions is never enough discussed question of responsibilities. As an author and researcher, I owe the responsibility to the shipyard "3. maj", to society in general, and to my science, anthropology. It means that I explore and try to understand the interrelations among various dimensions of the organization in question and its social contexts while using and developing conceptual tools and methodology of the anthropological science. These are many tasks to be performed simultaneously, and it seems that each researcher, in each particular context, with particular questions in mind, chooses to address one or two tasks more than the others. The big question stays hidden behind this complicated endeavor that we call socio-cultural analysis, and it is haunting us during our writing and thinking. It considers the methodology and theory at the same time: how much are we allowed to employ our creativity and imagination in the effort to understand certain aspects of social and cultural reality? Casper Jensen, Morten Pedersen, James Leach, Gillian Evans, Roy Wagner are only some of the authors who already addressed this problem by asking themselves do we, anthropologists, invent culture via our research, and do we create or invent relations within social domain, or we just discover them.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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