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(Knorr-Cetina 1981: 31, note 64). Another ethnographer who chose informed observa- tion is Traweek (1988: 9-11).
(Pickering 1984, 1995), Pinch (1986)7 and Merz (Merz and Knorr-Cetina 1997; Merz 1999), the im [...] nor understanding the interviewee is possible (Merton, Fiske, and Kendall 1956; Hopf 1978: 99-101).9 As Briggs’ discussion of “communica- tive blunders” in interviews proves, the failure to understand [...] an effort, and have not just come to pick their brain. You have gone as far as you can go with the
9 Zuckerman (1972: 165) confirmed that her preparation of interviews with Nobel laureates often called …