Relacja badacz-badany - problemy metodologiczne i etyczne (na marginesie badań nad życiem codziennym w domach pomocy społecznej)

• Authors: Jolanta Lisek-Michalska

Title variants

EN

Relation between a Researcher and a Subject of Research: Methodological and Ethical Problems (Reflexions in Connection with Research on Everyday Life in Institutions of Social Assistance)

Abstracts

EN

Ethical dilemmas encountered by the authoress using participant observation in a house of social assistance for incapacitated persons are discussed. Two exemplary cases are analysed: 1) an elderly man with temporarily cured epilepsy developed a strong attachment to the researcher in the course of biographic interview; when she could not come for an appointed meeting he was so upset that fits re-appeared; 2) an invalid woman who claimed to suffer from acute pain in her leg asked the researcher to report it directly to the doctor which was contrary to the rules and could antagonize the nurses who suspected simulation. This illustrates difficulties caused by conflicting expectations directed to a researcher by various categories of persons involved in social relations with her/him in the course of research.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Sociologica
• Year: 1997
• Issue: 26
• Pages: 199-205

Dates

published

1997

Contributors

author

Jolanta Lisek-Michalska

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

20709207