The Ultimate Answer to Life, Universe, and Everything
Skaičiau medžiagą apie etnografinius interviavimus, ir viena sekcija nori nenori privertė prisiminti garsųjį 42. Pacituosiu (paryškinimai mano):
I was reading some material on ethnographic interviewing, and one section reminded me of the famous Answer to Everything - 42. Quote (my emphases):
It is basic to communications theory that you don't start getting any information from an utterance or event until you know what it is in response to - you must know what question is being answered. It could be said of ethnography that until you know the question that someone in the culture is responding to you can't know many things about the responses. Yet the ethnographer is greeted, in the field, with an array of responses. He needs to know what question people are answering in their every act. He needs to know which questons are being taken for granted because they are what "everybody knows" without thinking.... Thus the task of the ethnographer is to dscover questions that seek the relatonship among entities that are conceptually meaningful to the people under investigation.
I was reading some material on ethnographic interviewing, and one section reminded me of the famous Answer to Everything - 42. Quote (my emphases):
It is basic to communications theory that you don't start getting any information from an utterance or event until you know what it is in response to - you must know what question is being answered. It could be said of ethnography that until you know the question that someone in the culture is responding to you can't know many things about the responses. Yet the ethnographer is greeted, in the field, with an array of responses. He needs to know what question people are answering in their every act. He needs to know which questons are being taken for granted because they are what "everybody knows" without thinking.... Thus the task of the ethnographer is to dscover questions that seek the relatonship among entities that are conceptually meaningful to the people under investigation.