Special: An interview with Robert Prus: His Career, Contributions, and Legacy as an Interactionist Ethnographer and Social Theorist

Abstract

I have used an extended, open-ended interview with Robert Prus as a means with which to consider his contributions to ethnographic research and social theory. Given the range of his scholarship, a fairly detailed listing of the topics covered in the interview is presented at the outset. In addition to (a) considering Robert Prus’s own career as a scholar, attention is given to (b) his involvements in symbolic interaction as a field of study, (c) ethnographic research as a mode of inquiry, (d) generic social processes as a realm of theorizing about the nature of human group life, and (e) some specific ethnographies on which he has worked as well as (f) his critiques of both positivist and postmodernist scholarship and (g) his involvements in tracing the development of pragmatist social thought from the classical Greek era to the present time and even more recent thoughts on (h) the sociology of Emile Durkheim and (i) public sociology.

Menggunakan Paradigma Studi Kasus Kualitatif Interpretatif Online dan Offline Untuk Memahami Efektivitas Penerapan E-Procurement

“…Ini mendukung pandangan bahwa wawancara konvensional dalam studi interpretatif dapat menjadi masalah dan informan mungkin menciptakan fenomena mereka sendiri untuk memuaskan para peneliti (Bauer & Jovchelovitch, 2000), misalnya informan bias saja mengatakan apa yang ingin dikatakan untuk memenuhi harapan peneliti (Kleinknecht, 2007). Dalam wawancara offline, informan mungkin juga dipengaruhi oleh kognitif dan emosional karena interaksi dengan peneliti yang kemudian menyebabkan data yang dilaporkan oleh informan mungkin kurang sesuai dengan kenyataan objektif (Dean & Whyte, 1958).…”

Interpretive case study to understand online communication in an e-tendering project implementation

“…The above findings justified the view that face-to-face interviews could be problematic because participants might only want to please researchers and want the interview sessions last soon (Bauer & Jovchelovitch, 2000). In other conditions, a research participant may also say something that meets the researcher's expectations (Kleinknecht, 2007). Face-toface interviews may also cause informants to experience low cognitive and emotional feelings because interactions with researchers may not be in a comfortable time and environment.…”