http://kdevries.net/teaching/2009/05/18/stoller-last-thoughts-on-subjectivity/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 11 May 2010 13:45:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://kdevries.net/teaching/2009/05/18/stoller-last-thoughts-on-subjectivity/comment-page-1/#comment-400 mcalou Thu, 21 May 2009 18:58:20 +0000 http://kdevries.net/teaching/?p=1202#comment-400 I know it must have been difficult for you to say this Faye, "Through both Pryer and Stoller, especially in thinking about this quote, I realize that being subjective can be perhaps more effective and more work than purported objectivity." There is a time and a place for subjective and objetive observation; sometimes even a mixing of the two. I know it must have been difficult for you to say this Faye, “Through both Pryer and Stoller, especially in thinking about this quote, I realize that being subjective can be perhaps more effective and more work than purported objectivity.” There is a time and a place for subjective and objetive observation; sometimes even a mixing of the two.

]]> http://kdevries.net/teaching/2009/05/18/stoller-last-thoughts-on-subjectivity/comment-page-1/#comment-381 nweidner Tue, 19 May 2009 21:01:43 +0000 http://kdevries.net/teaching/?p=1202#comment-381 Faye I have never agreed more with you than I did in reading that last paragraph. Ethnographic writing is a bridge, a bridge between a culture and a reader, a bridge between narrative and science, between a story and a news report (not that they are objective but...), between a picture and a painting. Ok I think I've said enough but I couldn't agree more. Subjectivity is not a hindrance, it is not an excuse for lame work. It is objectivity that is a hindrance and it is only once researchers embrace the fact that nothing is objective and that the best research encompasses and illustrates all the subjectivity issues with their study that research really prospers and has meaning. The world is heading in that direction. It may not be for a hundred years but soon subjectivity will reign. Faye I have never agreed more with you than I did in reading that last paragraph. Ethnographic writing is a bridge, a bridge between a culture and a reader, a bridge between narrative and science, between a story and a news report (not that they are objective but…), between a picture and a painting. Ok I think I’ve said enough but I couldn’t agree more. Subjectivity is not a hindrance, it is not an excuse for lame work. It is objectivity that is a hindrance and it is only once researchers embrace the fact that nothing is objective and that the best research encompasses and illustrates all the subjectivity issues with their study that research really prospers and has meaning. The world is heading in that direction. It may not be for a hundred years but soon subjectivity will reign.

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