{"id":89,"date":"2015-03-26T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/?p=89"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T15:36:33","slug":"dale-c-spencer-on-observant-participation-and-becoming-a-mixed-martial-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/2015\/03\/26\/dale-c-spencer-on-observant-participation-and-becoming-a-mixed-martial-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale C. Spencer on Observant Participation and Becoming a Mixed Martial Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, we talk with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/umanitoba.ca\/faculties\/arts\/departments\/sociology\/facstaff\/3372.html\">Dale C. Spencer<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba.\u00a0Dale joins us to discuss ethnographic research. In particular, Dale explains the value of observant participation in understanding the sensory and phenomenological experiences of becoming a mixed martial artist.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen you are an observant participant, you are at stake. You have a vested interest in succeeding. But the reality of the matter is, you are also open, very clearly, to fail in that world.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/em>Dale C. Spencer-<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6046\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-89-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC8_Spencer_Observant_Participation.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC8_Spencer_Observant_Participation.mp3\">http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC8_Spencer_Observant_Participation.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC8_Spencer_Observant_Participation.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/?powerpress_pinw=89-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GMAC8_Spencer_Observant_Participation.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"GMAC8_Spencer_Observant_Participation.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, we talk with\u00a0Dale C. Spencer, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba.\u00a0Dale joins us to discuss ethnographic research. In particular, Dale explains the value of observant participation in understanding the sensory and phenomenological experiences of becoming a mixed martial artist. \u201cWhen you are an observant participant, you are at stake. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34729],"tags":[97,34711,3244,18931],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interpretive-qualitative","tag-ethnography","tag-observant-participation","tag-phenomenology","tag-qualitative"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}