Field Research Delusions: From Confusion to Insight on the Green Tortoise

38 Pages Posted: 17 Aug 2016

Date Written: August 15, 2016

Abstract

In the following story, I catalogue a variety of difficulties that I encountered while conducting field research on the Green Tortoise. Oddly enough, the greatest impediments to the early success of this project were my poorly examined orienting assumptions. Nevertheless, the distortions imposed by my flawed assumptions were effectively sundered by an uncomfortable, but invaluable “corrective” crisis.

Keywords: science, truth, postmodern, theory, social science, science, qualitative, ethnography, research

Suggested Citation

McGettigan, Timothy, Field Research Delusions: From Confusion to Insight on the Green Tortoise (August 15, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2824123 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2824123

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