摘要：Observing people working within organizational contexts through time creates
epistemological issues, more so when doing it overtly, with top management's
official agreement. Power relations as well as hierarchical structures strongly
influence the way people view the observer and interact with her in
organizations. Those interactions also partly depend on his personal background
- sex, age, professional position and so on. Following a reflexive approach, my
objective is here to better grasp how top management's agreement to the
ethnographer's entry on the field may influence both the way workers from
differing hierarchical levels behave with her (and thus affect her observing
conditions) and how he may analyse his ethnographic notes to develop scientific
sociological results.
