Ignazio di Loyola e Carl Rogers per la formazione degli osservatori partecipanti e per la conduzione di ricerche “centrate sulla persona”

This paper is concerned with conducting ethnographic research that is “person-centered.” Centered, that is, on the social actor who is the protagonist of the contexts cultural contexts that are to be studied. The objective is to provide useful tools operational, at the different stages of ethnographic research, that enable the researcher: a) to choose the identities through which to have the best access to the reality of study, b) to establish face-to-face interactions that are based on respect for the actors he is studying, c) to transform what, in a classical approach of participant observation participant observation, were called “subjects” of the research, into “collaborating ethnographers,” d) to adapt quickly to the sudden transformations in the field of observation that often characterize studies of “other” cultures.