Post-Doctoral Fellow, Manipal Center for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Life Sciences Road, Eshwar Nagar, Manipal, Karnataka 576 104 INDIA.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2020 Jan-Mar;V(1):34-38. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2019.081.
One of the biggest components of the disciplines, Sociology and Social Anthropology is fieldwork. Despite the significance of fieldwork as a method, there is limited scholarship on the myriad experiences of the fieldworker. This commentary emphasises the need to document field narratives of researchers, while using the personal field experience of the author as a prototype. The author encountered these experiences in 2016 as part of an independent and self-funded study (Understanding aging in old age homes of Delhi, India) that she had conducted in Delhi post the submission of her PhD thesis titled: Three essays in aging: Social capital, family dynamics and transnational arrangements. The said thesis was completed at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, (pp: 1-169) from the year 2013-2018. In particular, the commentary sheds light on the ethical challenges faced during fieldwork. Specifically, this commentary, against the backdrop of the author's encounters in an old age home, analyses the importance of primary themes such as the subjective-objective approach, passionate detachment, rapport building, critical reflexivity and the insider-outsider perspective while conducting fieldwork.
学科中最大的组成部分之一是社会学和社会人类学，实地工作是其中的一部分。尽管实地工作作为一种方法具有重要意义，但对于实地工作者的各种经验的研究却很有限。本评论强调了记录研究人员的实地叙述的必要性，同时以作者的个人实地经验作为原型。作者在 2016 年遇到了这些经历，当时她正在进行一项独立的自费研究（理解印度德里老年之家的老龄化），该研究是在她提交博士论文后进行的，论文题目是：老龄化的三篇论文：社会资本、家庭动态和跨国安排。该论文是在印度理工学院甘地讷格尔分校（2013-2018 年）完成的，共 169 页。特别是，本评论在作者在老年之家的遭遇背景下，分析了在进行实地工作时，主观-客观方法、热情超脱、建立融洽关系、批判性反思和局内-局外视角等主要主题的重要性。
