A team ethnography on vaccine hesitancy in Europe. A case study of a local truth construction
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2023
Abstract:
This paper focuses on the methodological conundrum of doing quick team ethnography in complex teams in a clinical setting studying childhood vaccine hesitancy. It describes how and to what extent a particular «thought style» (in Ludwik Fleck’s meaning) has developed through decisions, negotiations and disputes, producing a dialogical «local truth». It also shows how ethnographers can adapt their practice, considering day-to-day endogenous changes in fieldwork and public debate as well as exogenous ones, such as pandemics
and wars. Following a compact exploration of a few sensitising concepts, referring in particular to Ludwik Fleck, Knorr-Cetina and Clifford Geertz, it explores how the complex team had worked in practice effectively while
unpacking vaccine hesitancy. The paper describes three fundamental steps of this group endeavour: i) the genealogy of the birth of the team and the subsequent team-building process; ii) the illustration of how the group’s «thought collective» and interactions have produced in practice a «local truth»; iii) a reflexive stance on this particular empirical case of «method in process». The paper concludes with methodological remarks.
Tipologia CRIS:
03A-Articolo su Rivista
Keywords:
vaccine hesitancy, rapid team ethnography, vaccination, childhood vaccine, qualitative health research, thought style, reflexive account, EU research policies
Elenco autori:
Mario Cardano; Dino Numerato; Luigi Gariglio; Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková; Alice Scavarda; Piet Bracke; Ana Patrícia Hilàrio; Paulina Polak
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RASSEGNA ITALIANA DI SOCIOLOGIA
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