ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we will discuss the specific issues associated with ‘working with others’ and what makes that different from ‘pure’ sociological or social science research. Sociology, in common with the other social sciences, is characterized by an endless series of disagreements about methods, concepts, theories, commitments and so on. Even within the more narrowly defined ‘ethnographic’project, we find the same disagreements. These are mainly about three things: issues of method; epistemological, moral and political issues; and conceptual and theoretical issues. It is not a part of this chapter to deal with those issues in any detail, but we do need to say that one of the things that characterizes ethnographic enquiry when done for sociological purposes is a commitment to the discussion of these issues; ethnographers agree, in other words, about what it is that they disagree about.
