Pollitt C, Harrison S, Hunter D J, Marnoch G
Open University.
J Soc Policy. 1990 Apr;19(2):169-90. doi: 10.1017/s0047279400001987.
It has never been easy to conduct research into currently sensitive policy issues, but there is now accumulating evidence to indicate that various forms of resistance to scholarly investigation are on the increase. Such a climate handicaps all social policy research, but may have the greatest impact on ethnographic projects. Yet, it is argued, ethnography is increasingly widely recognised among academics as having a particularly valuable contribution to make to the study of the policy process. Unfortunately, many policy practitioners (and occasionally some academic colleagues) perceive ethnographic research as being of questionable validity and low helpfulness. This behaves policy-oriented ethnographers to demonstrate that they do indeed have procedures for assuring validity, even if their style of investigation is never likely to be popular with government.
对当前敏感的政策问题进行研究从来都不是一件容易的事，但现在有越来越多的证据表明，对学术调查的各种抵制形式正在增加。这种氛围阻碍了所有社会政策研究，但可能对人种志项目影响最大。然而，有人认为，人种志在学术界越来越被广泛认可，认为它对政策过程的研究有特别宝贵的贡献。不幸的是，许多政策从业者（偶尔也有一些学术同事）认为人种志研究的有效性存疑且帮助不大。这使得以政策为导向的人种志研究者有必要证明他们确实有确保有效性的程序，即使他们的调查方式不太可能受到政府欢迎。
