Basic research on the participant-observation as a mode od embodied knowing

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26285146
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social psychology
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Minami Hirofumi 九州大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 教授 (20192362)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 澤田 英三 安田女子大学, その他部局等, 教授 (00215914) ; 坂元 一光 九州大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 教授 (20150386) ; 濱田 裕子 九州大学, 医学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (60285541) ; 佐々木 玲仁 九州大学, 人間・環境学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (70411121) ; 藤枝 守 九州大学, 芸術工学研究科(研究院), 教授 (80346858)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: フィールドワーク / 参与しつつの観察 / 初期過程 / 身体知 / 指標 / 文化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present research investigated the qualitative differences between the novice and expert workers in the early phase of field entry by clarifying “indexes” of the depth of participation in the field. The cross-fields studies involving medical, clinical, ethnographic, musicological, and urban research fields revealed the following indexical attributes of the dwelling-in-the fields, 1) in-placement as exemplified in the stable positioning, movement, ways of being according to the local and implicit rules of the place; 2) shift from a self-oriented to the other-oriented attitudes and actions in the way of experiencing the field while listening to and inquiring the informants and the overall phenomenal site; and 3) crossing the boundary with respect to the understanding “within one’s own range,” loss of control and being “taken over” by others in the field which reveal one’s status as a stranger there.

Free Research Field

環境心理学