scholarly journals Para cima, Antropólogos: perspectivas ganhas em estudar os de cima

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Nader
Keyword(s):  
Studying Up

Neste ensaio, descreverei algumas das oportunidades que os antropólogos têm de “estudar os de cima” (studying up) em sua própria sociedade, na expectativa de fomentar mais discussões sobre o porquê estudamos o que estudamos (NADER, 1964). Os antropólogos têm uma grande contribuição para a nossa compreensão dos processos pelos quais o poder e a responsabilidade são exercidos nos Estados Unidos. Além disso, há uma certa urgência para esse tipo de antropologia preocupada com o poder (Cf. WOLF, 1969), pois a qualidade de vida e as nossas próprias vidas em si mesmas dependem do modo como os cidadãos compreendem aqueles que moldam e realmente controlam as estruturas institucionais. O estudo do homem é confrontado com uma situação sem precedentes: nunca antes tão poucos, por suas ações e inações, tiveram o poder de vida e morte sobre tantos membros da espécie humana. Apresento três razões para “estudar os de cima”: seu efeito estimulante e articulador para muitos estudantes, adequação científica e relevância democrática do trabalho científico. Finalmente, considerarei alguns obstáculos e objeções frequentes e tentarei respondê-los.

A.C.A.B.: Studying up the rule of law in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjaana Jauhola ◽  
Yudi Bolong
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Banda Aceh ◽  
Studying Up

Feel-bad moments: Unpacking the complexity of class, gender and whiteness when studying ‘up’

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Sohl
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Studying Up

Intimacy, shared experiences and evening out the power relations between researcher and the participants play an important role in feminist methodology. However, as highlighted in previous research on studying ‘up’, such methods might not be appropriate when studying privileged groups. Therefore, studying privileged women challenges fundamental assumptions in feminist methodology. When researching privileged women, the assumption that the researcher is almost always in a superior position within the research process becomes more complicated. The article seeks to contribute to the feminist methodological literature on how to study privileged groups by exploring how class, gender and whiteness are produced in three fieldwork situations with women who hold privileges in a postcolonial and capitalist landscape. Drawing on interviews and participant observations with white Swedish migrant women, the article argues that researchers need to turn the problems, fears and feelings of being uncomfortable into important data, in order to study privileged groups of women.

Studying Up: Four Modalities, Two Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-252
Author(s):  
Hugh Gusterson
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Vertical Slice ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Review Boards ◽  
Studying Up

Abstract In her 1973 article “up the anthropologist” Laura Nader called on anthropologists to engage in critical studies of the relationship between powerful institutions and the broader society, using a “vertical slice” approach. But Nader worried that participant observation was hard in the context of studying up, and yet it has been presented as definitive of anthropology’s methodology. This article discusses four methodological strategies for studying up in the light of this concern: insider ethnography; covert ethnography; remote ethnography; and adapted participant observation. The first two have intellectual or ethical liabilities. The last is increasingly normalized. Going forward, anthropologists studying up face two obstacles: first, the increasingly totalizing hold of corporate and government workplaces over their employees, even when they are not at work; and, second, university institutional review boards (irb s) concerned to avoid conflictual or critical research.

scholarly journals Studying Up Revisited

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Gusterson
Keyword(s):  
Studying Up

Coming Unstuck: Thinking Otherwise about "Studying Up"

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Priyadharshini
Keyword(s):  
Studying Up

scholarly journals KEBIJAKAN PENDIDIKAN DI AMERIKA SERIKAT

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Taat Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Education System ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Good Education ◽  
Studying Up

AbstractRegarding education is a means of countries to develop, there are some policiesand strategies to fulfill the above mission. Such as to provide good infrastructures andstructures to develop curriculum, to develop the quality of teachers, to increase education budget and to adopt the good aspect of others education system.This article is to elaborate education system in United States of America. Despite there are some countries which have good education system, USA has relatively good education system. It is not surprisingly that there are some qualified universities, so that some students choose these universities for studying. Up to now the numbers of Indonesian graduate from USA is still in the first range.Keywords: Education, policy.

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