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Abstract
Attention to metaphor as a tool for cognition and action has already been called by the classic work by Georg Lakoff and Mark Johnson—Metaphors We Live By (1980). However, some four decades after this publication’s first edition, the role of metaphor as a useful instrument in empirical research seems to have been forgotten. Therefore, the first step taken in the text at hand is to highlight that codes of ethics neither resolve nor befit the dynamically shifting circumstances of research conducted in the field. Ethical codes are often insufficient. Hence, an objective here will be to critically assess the broad application of such codes in general. The second step will be to turn to metaphor as a tool in developing the sociological imagination as understood by C. Wright Mills. The metaphor can also assist in finding oneself when confronted with difficult, ambiguous circumstances that may arise during fieldwork. Metaphor as a tool, as an ethical kaleidoscope coherently links the field research experience precisely with the sociological imagination.
格奥尔格-拉科夫(Georg Lakoff)和马克-约翰逊(Mark Johnson-Metaphors We Live By)的经典著作《我们赖以生存的隐喻》(1980 年)已经唤起了人们对隐喻作为认知和行动工具的关注。然而,在这本著作第一版问世约 40 年后,隐喻作为实证研究的有用工具的作用似乎已被遗忘。因此,手头这篇文章迈出的第一步就是要强调,道德规范既不能解决也不适合实地研究中不断变化的情况。伦理准则往往是不够的。因此,这里的一个目标是批判性地评估这些准则在一般情况下的广泛应用。第二步是将隐喻作为发展 C. Wright Mills 所理解的社会学想象力的工具。隐喻还可以帮助我们在实地工作中遇到困难和模糊不清的情况时找到自我。隐喻作为一种工具,作为一种伦理万花筒,将实地研究经验与社会学想象力紧密联系在一起。
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For a long time, we have observed an increased interest in qualitative sociology, and the use of an interpretive frame to understand human actions, social processes, meanings and definitions, and new social theory generally. In order to enable a free flow of information and to integrate the community of qualitative sociologists, we have decided to create an open-access, international scientific journal. Qualitative Sociology Review publishes empirical, theoretical and methodological articles applicable to all fields and specializations within sociology.