Plaidoyer pour le bricolage et l'enracinement des méthodes d'enquête dans le terrain : l'exemple d'une recherche sur le changement dans les services publics locaux
Plea for Adapting and Embedding Survey Methods in the Field, Example of Research on Changes in Local Public Services: Beginning with a distinction between theory and methodological practice, this article attempts to show, on the basis of a case study, the advantages of two types of methodological op...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Français |
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Bulletin de méthodologie sociologique
2008
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Plea for Adapting and Embedding Survey Methods in the Field, Example of Research on Changes in Local Public Services: Beginning with a distinction between theory and methodological practice, this article attempts to show, on the basis of a case study, the advantages of two types of methodological operations: adapting and embedding survey methods in the field. The description and the justification of procedures developed by these methodological operations will lead me to the discussion of the conditions of validity and use of certain methods of scientific investigation : classic methods — observations, interviews, etc. — or more uncommon — action research-intervention, scenarios method. I will also show the triple advantage of methodological adaptation and field embeddedness: permitting the research to translate his or her subject and objectives into terms compatible with the type of intended intelligibility; to permit access to field work that can prove to be fruitful for both the research and the actors; construct a research format adapted to the actors' experience and permitting the translation of the researcher's abstract questioning into terms compatible with this experience. |
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