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Record W2033312706 · doi:10.1177/0891241613497747

Becoming a “Trusted Outsider”

2013· article· en· W2033312706 on OpenAlexaff
Sandra M. Bucerius

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Contemporary Ethnography · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicQualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInsiderEthnographySociologyEthnic groupSocioeconomic statusPerspective (graphical)ImmigrationCriminologySocial psychologyGender studiesPsychologyPolitical scienceLawAnthropologyComputer science

Abstract

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It is commonly assumed that successful ethnographers strive for insider status and avoid being regarded as an outsider. Very often and especially within criminology, an ethnographer’s ability to gain the trust of research participants is linked to his or her degree of similarity to them, particularly with respect to gender. By describing the research dynamics between an all-male group of second-generation immigrants in Frankfurt/Germany, the “gatekeepers” and myself—a female researcher of different socioeconomic and ethnic background—I suggest that being an outsider in general and a female in particular is not a liability one necessarily needs to overcome. I propose that achieving status as an outsider trusted with “inside knowledge” may provide the ethnographer with a different perspective and different data than that potentially afforded by insider status.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.012
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.023
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.062

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0120.023
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0110.016
Scholarly communication0.0080.009
Open science0.0010.010
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.322
GPT teacher head0.503
Teacher spread0.181 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2013
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