“It is unfortunate that some of us worry about losing data but not our thoughts about the data. If we believed in the premises of sociology—that interaction is patterned, that people share meanings, beliefs, and behaviors—then we would trust that the patterns we missed while we were writing will still be there when we return to the field. We are more likely to forget our insights into what we observed.” ThoughtsEmotionsPatternsDataInteractionSociologyPremisesInsightsFieldworkThe Field Book:Emotions and Fieldwork Source: Emotions and Fieldwork
“Fieldworkers must build a community of sentiment, with local and long-distance members, that opposes the competitive individualism of academia. The lone scholar is a sociological impossibility. Our “individual” works rely on language, literatures, and feedback from colleagues (Becker, 1986).” CommunityMembersIndividualismScholarColleaguesSociologyImpossibilityAcademiaSentimentFieldworkers Book:Emotions and Fieldwork Source: Emotions and Fieldwork