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Peter Adler Occurred in the Twenty-Eight Years This Confe- Tly, Considerable Changes in How Ethnography University of Denver, U.S.A Keynote Address. Tales From the Field: Reflections on Four Decades of Ethnography Patricia A. Adler e1 are honored to be standing in front of cemented the attraction we had for each other University of Colorado, U.S.A. Wthis group today. It is our hope to galva- into something that has lasted a long time. nize all of the ideas that we have heard in the Thus began a personal and professional career many sessions here, to reflect back on what has that has spanned four decades, and concurren- Peter Adler occurred in the twenty-eight years this confe- tly, considerable changes in how ethnography University of Denver, U.S.A. rence has been held annually, and to provide, is practiced. We were also fortunate to meet our through both autobiographical reflection of our eventual mentor, Jack Douglas, in 1975, when KEYNOTE ADDRESS nearly forty years in the field as ethnographers he was in the midst of writing his seminal TALES FROM THE FIELD: REFLECTIONS ON and on the youthful exuberance of many of the methodological treatise, Investigative Social Re- novice and younger researchers in the audien- search: Individual and Team Field Research (1976), FOUR DECADES OF ETHNOGRAPHY ce, an assessment of where we stand today. The who saw in us a mini-team, perfect for descri- Abstract Drawing on careers spanning over 35 years in the field of ethnography, we re- history of field work and field workers is a rich bing the type of team field research he was then flect on the research in which we’ve engaged and how the practice and episte- one, full of subjectivity, much like qualitative advocating. mology of ethnography has evolved over this period. We begin by addressing research epistemology itself. People’s stories the problematic nature of ethical issues in conducting qualitative research, We began our sociological odyssey at an auspi- from the field entwine with their lives, as Van highlighting the non-uniform nature of standards, the difficulty of apply- cious location, not only politically but sociologi- ing mainstream or medical criteria to field research, and the issues raised Maanen (1988) so brilliantly reminded us in cally; within the year prior to our arrival (1968) by the new area of cyber research, drawing particularly on our recent cyber- his discussions of “confessional tales,” giving Laud Humphreys had conducted his field rese- ethnography of self-injury. We then discuss the challenge of engagement, hi- a reflexive imprint to their personal and pro- arch on “tearoom trades” that would win him ghlighting pulls that draw ethnographers between the ideals of involvement fessional histories. We are pleased to take this and objectivity. Finally, we address the challenges and changing landscapes a C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for occasion to reflect back on the way our appro- of qualitative analysis, and how its practice and legitimation are impacted by the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), arguably contemporary trends in sociology. We conclude by discussing how epistemo- ach to the field was influenced by our personal the most prestigious book award given in North logical decisions in the field of qualitative research are framed in political, biographies in and outside of the academy. ethical, and disciplinary struggles over disciplinary hegemony. American Sociology. The first work to systema- This year, in 2011, we celebrated the 41st an- tically document the nature of impersonal sex Keywords Ethnography; Epistemology; Ethics; Cyber-Ethnography; Qualitative Rese- encounters at public rest rooms, Tearoom Trade: arch; Self-Injury; Deviance; Sport; Socialization; Youth niversary of our relationship. It began on May 5, 1970, a day marked by the tragedy at Kent A Study of Homosexual Encounters in Public Pla- State when four college students were shot by ces (1970) cast light onto one dimension of the is a Professor of Sociolo- Patricia A. Adler Peter Adler is a Professor of Sociology at the Ohio National Guard as they protested aga- homosexual scene: a venue where men who gy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her the University of Denver. His areas of interest inst the Vietnam War, and immortalized by the conceive of and portray themselves as hetero- areas of interest are qualitative methods, de- are sociology of sport, sociology of drugs, and sexual can venture, at some considerable risk, viant behavior, and symbolic interactionism. qualitative methods. He has written numero- Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young song, “Four Her book, Wheeling and Dealing, a study of up- us books, most of them with Patti Adler. Their Dead in Ohio.” We, too, were protesting at our into finding impersonal sex with anonymous per-level drug dealers and smugglers, is now most recent one is The Tender Cut, a study of campus at Washington University in St. Louis, partners without any emotional connection or considered a classic in the field. people who self-injure. and the force of that collective consciousness obligation. Laud’s work was groundbreaking email address: [email protected] email address: [email protected] not only for its empirical exploration of this 1 This speech was originally delivered as a Keyno- hidden, deviant scene, but for the combination In 2010, the Adlers were the recipients of the George H. Mead Award from the Society for the te Address at the 28th Annual Qualitative Analysis Study of Symbolic Interaction, the first collaborators to win this honor for lifetime achievement. Conference, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, of investigative methods he used to gather the Ontario, Canada, May 2011. data. This research made him infamous in the 10 ©2012 QSR Volume VIII Issue 1 Qualitative Sociology Review • www.qualitativesociologyreview.org 11 Patricia A. Adler & Peter Adler Keynote Address. Tales From the Field: Reflections on Four Decades of Ethnography discipline because he used a covert role to gain camps. Eventually Alvin blew up after one in- for credit, service learning, pass-fail courses, as about the times in which we have written, entrée into these public bathrooms and, taking flammatory posting that criticized him. Becau- auditing, practical experience, and courses abo- the settings we have studied, and the ways in the role of the “watch queen,” systematically se of some Latin phraseology in it, he inferred ut all forms of popular culture, much of it con- which we have gone about doing our ethnogra- recorded the nature of the way his subjects si- that it had been written by Laud, who had been troversial. Today’s educators claim they want phies to reflect more generally on some aspects lently approached, signaled, negotiated, carried a member of the clergy prior to entering gradu- to get back to basics (“no child left behind”), of the state of qualitative research today. Along out, and terminated their transactions, delica- ate school. Subsequently, he is alleged to have that North America is lagging behind other in- the way, we will talk about ethical, methodolo- tely balancing the need to hide their behavior punched Laud Humphreys in the face, sen- dustrialized countries academically, but they gical, and epistemological issues related to eth- and scene from dangerous outsiders while si- ding him to the hospital. The department then ignore the creativity and autonomy that leads nography and the changes that we have seen in multaneously keeping it open for interested exploded, with most of the people leaving both to great ideas and new forms of society. the past three to four decades. participants to locate. Washington University and St. Louis. Our so- ciological careers began, then, at a site of great We extended the unconventionality of this set- WHEELING AND DEALING At the same time he surreptitiously recorded professional conflict (see also Adler and Adler ting and time. Intellectually fascinated by aca- Beginning our study of sociology in the sha- the license plate numbers from their cars and, 1989a). demia, we found ourselves, as sophomores, through a friend at the Department of Motor taking classes and discussing our take-home dow of Laud Humphreys’ work, criminology Vehicles, obtained their names and addresses. We also began our journey in the midst of the exams together in great depth. Once we had and deviance were our first loves in sociology. He later, after changing his appearance, visited countercultural revolutions of the 1960s and thoroughly shared our ideas, we had difficul- We were drawn to major in this field by a parti- their homes and used a short questionnaire he ‘70s. This era was marked by great innovations ty disentangling them, and so we approached cularly charismatic professor, Marv Cummins, was concurrently administering for an epide- and revolutions in higher education; people our professors to see if they would permit us to and one class in particular. Standing up on miological survey through the medical school were being rewarded for thinking outside the complete our work collaboratively. Testament to a demonstration table in the front of a large, slo- to find out information about their lives and box. When we were in college, the freedom to the values of the era, they agreed, challenging ped lecture hall, Cummins illustrated how pro- demographic characteristics. This information explore, to create, and to otherwise develop na- us to make our work twice as good as we could fessional burglars break into buildings without helped establish the liminal nature of people turally, was part of the new ethos. Any of us individually; we since have taken that as a care- shattering their glass windows or tripping the who perform these homosexual acts in the gay who were in school in those days can point to er mandate. Thus we launched a conjoint career alarm systems. The more we heard, the more scene and their primary involvement in a mid- programs and progressive reforms that were (see Adler et al.
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