Subjective evidence based ethnography: method and applications

Lahlou, Saadi ORCID: 0000-0001-8114-7271, Le Bellu, Sophie and Boesen-Mariani, Sabine (2015) Subjective evidence based ethnography: method and applications. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 49 (2). pp. 216-238. ISSN 1932-4502

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Subjective Evidence Based Ethnography (SEBE) is a method designed to access subjective experience. It uses First Person Perspective (FPP) digital recordings as a basis for analytic Replay Interviews (RIW) with the participants. This triggers their memory and enables a detailed step by step understanding of activity: goals, subgoals, determinants of actions, decision-making processes, etc. This paper describes the technique and two applications. First, the analysis of professional practices for know-how transferring purposes in industry is illustrated with the analysis of nuclear power-plant operators’ gestures. This shows how SEBE enables modelling activity, describing good and bad practices, risky situations, and expert tacit knowledge. Second, the analysis of full days lived by Polish mothers taking care of their children is described, with a specific focus on how they manage their eating and drinking. This research has been done on a sub-sample of a large scale intervention designed to increase plain water drinking vs sweet beverages. It illustrates the interest of SEBE as an exploratory technique in complement to other more classic approaches such as questionnaires and behavioural diaries. It provides the detailed “how” of the effects that are measured at aggregate level by other techniques.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://link.springer.com/journal/12124
Additional Information:	© 2015 Springer Science+Business Media New York
Divisions:	Psychological and Behavioural Science
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	19 Jan 2015 16:16
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 00:50
Projects:	European Union 7th Framework Programme for research (grant agreement n° 246561), ESRC grant ES/J021350/1, Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship (PIEFGA- 2012-330709)
Funders:	Paris Institute for Advanced Study (France), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Networks for Methodological Innovation
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/60763

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