ABSTRACT

Drawing on research conducted in ten Norwegian households, this article describes the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing regulations have had on the research design and, consequently, on research data. The article describes how the research design had to be adapted to a variety of containment measures that were imposed during the fieldwork, and how this has influenced the researchers’ rapport with informants and access to the field and the challenges that emerged. It also describes a more active role for the participants in the study, whose agency was enhanced. The article proposes a new way of approaching fieldwork in homes adopting ‘methodological improvisation’ and concludes with recommendations for future research, proposing digital ethnography methods as both an option that enables data collection during a pandemic and as a sustainable alternative to certain methodologies that belong to traditional ethnography.

摘要

本文借鉴在十个挪威家庭中进行的研究，描述了 COVID-19 大流行和社会疏远规定对研究设计的影响，进而对研究数据的影响。这篇文章描述了研究设计如何必须适应实地考察期间实施的各种遏制措施，以及这如何影响研究人员与线人的融洽关系、进入实地以及出现的挑战。它还描述了研究参与者更积极的作用，他们的能动性得到了增强。本文提出了一种采用“方法论即兴创作”进行家庭实地考察的新方法，并以对未来研究的建议作为结尾，