Paving the paths towards reflexive social research: a symposium

Queirós, João; Monteiro, Bruno

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Queirós, João

Monteiro, Bruno

Abstract(s)

In late 2009 thirty researchers from fifteen different countries gathered in Porto, Portugal, for a discussion-oriented workshop entitled “Paths towards reflexive sociology: Ethnography matters”. Although with very different social, academic and theoretical backgrounds, and with quite distinct research focuses and approaches, all participants shared an obvious interest in questioning their own practice, its social and political implications, the constraints set down by rigidly structured academic and professional universes, the social effects of their presence amoung the groups under study, and the theoretical, methodological and practical challenges brought on by a constantly changing social world. The aim was not so much to promote a scholarly debate on the “epistemology of social sciences” or on the “differences” between “positive” and “reflexive” science (Burawoy, 1998), than it was to create an opportunity for the sharing of the practical and many times unheeded ways trough which social researchers produce and perfect their “craft”.