We all have an Easy Rider inside – shadowing technique in students’ lifestyles’ research

• Authors: Monika Stasiak
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The text presents an approach which bases on participant observation, but is significantly more intensive and considerably interferes in peoples’ everyday life. The observer becomes a “shadow” of the observed people and accompanies them in everyday activities. This technique was crucial for the research made by the author and concerning students’ lifestyles, commissioned by Sustainable Lifestyle Research Center, carried out by the group of students from the University of Łódź. The text describes goals and results of the project and aims to show briefly the problems and chances of using shadowing tools in anthropological work.

Keywords

EN

lifestyle; sustainable lifestyle; shadowing research; participatory observation; Y generation; infantilist ethos

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Prace Etnograficzne
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 169–178

Dates

published

2013

online

2013-09-03

Contributors

author

Monika Stasiak

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/22999558.PE.13.014.1355